orangette

noun

1. A candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.

   “Especially around the Christmas holidays, I often make candied orange, lemon, or grapefruit peels to give to friends. Sometimes I partially dip the candied orange peels, called orangette, into melted chocolate to serve as an after-dinner treat.”

   “Orangettes are strips of candied orange. […] For an extra 8 calories per orangette, you could dip one half of the orangette in sugar and the other half in melted dark chocolate.”

   “To ‘make’ plain chocolate, I recommend adding patchouli; for a ganache, a trace of civet; for ‘orangette’,⁷ orange zest; for an After Eight, spearmint; and for the smell of cocoa powder, concrete of iris.”

   “I’d also bought a bag of chocolate-dipped orangettes from Chocolaterie Courtin, my favorite chocolate shop in the world.”

   “Orangettes can be served as they are at this stage, or coated in chocolate. If you wish to make chocolate orangettes, break the chocolate into chunks and melt in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water.”

2. (rare)An orange-haired person, especially a woman.

   “[Kim] Barickman went to the Empress Beauty Salon, 725 W. Ninth. after hours Thursday and had Judy Ross of 2123 Norman turn him from a brunette to an orangette.”

   “We’ve seen Miss Pennsylvania GiGi Gordon, the blonde. We’ve seen GiGi, the sun-streaked blonde. What most of us missed this summer was GiGi, the greenette. And not many got to see what pageant officials witnessed on camera, GiGi, the orangette.”

   “Definitely not Los Angeles -- where brunettes, noirettes, orangettes and Germanic blondes seem to thrive.”