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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
popover
noun
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▪ Whichever way this popover jacket looks distinctive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popover

also pop-over, "light cake," 1859, from pop (v.) + over (adv.).

Wiktionary
popover

n. 1 (context US English) A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding. 2 (context internet English) A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window.

WordNet
popover

n. light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup

Wikipedia
Popover

A popover is a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter similar to that of Yorkshire pudding, typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover pans, which have straight-walled sides rather than angled.

Popovers may be served either as a sweet—topped with fruit and whipped cream or butter and jam for breakfast or with afternoon tea—or with meats at lunch and dinner.

Popover (GUI)

A Popover is a container-type graphical control element that hovers over its parent window and blocks any other interaction with until it is selected. It can contain various other graphical control element such as checkboxes, radio buttons or a List box. As any container-type graphical control element it is meant to group elements that belong together and is not meant to be extensive.

Popover graphical control element were introduced in GTK+ 3.12

Popover (dress)

Popover is a type of dress originally designed by Claire McCardell in 1942. The outfit type became the basis for a variety of wrap-around dresses.

A versatile wrap dress, it could be used as a bathing suit cover-up, housedress, dressing gown, or party dress. It is iconic of the American Look (fashion movement) and could be worn for to entertain, to a party, or to cover up a swimsuit.

Usage examples of "popover".

Anxiety cut into her appetite so she kept her order to a minimum: coffee and the house special, Halekulani popovers with poha berry jam.

Colorful little vegetables and piquant dips, meat pies in airy pastries, something that looked like tiny popovers and tasted like heaven, finger-size columns of bread smelling of herbs and cheese, a dessert of brownies and lemon bars, and enough fine champagne to put them all on the wrong side of the law.

A couple of dozen lisettes, a kind of miniature popovers glazed and stuffed with candied fruit, made, traditionally, for the midsummer day celebration.

He had eaten a good breakfast at his boarding house: a wedge of honeydew melon, an omelette fines herbes with saut‚ed chicken livers, cheese popovers, and three cups of coffee.