Definition of "rissole" []

• A small, pastry-enclosed croquette of a minced meat or fish, usually fried in deep fat. (noun)

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• "There was a mysterious kind of rissole that began to appear on the School menu on Mondays, and Chips called it abhorrendum — "meat to be abhorred.""
• "Sandy - re Channa daal instead of chickpeas - I have no idea, but a rissole is a rissole, isn’t it?"
• "As for "faggots" = "kind of rissole", this is almost like pasties."