madeleine

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Then, the SPD team had to spell one more word correctly to affirm the result, and Leos - who on Wednesday predicted a win for the SPD team based on Stubbs's spelling prowess - correctly spelled the word, "madeleine" and it was over.

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  • Then, the SPD team had to spell one more word correctly to affirm the result, and Leos - who on Wednesday predicted a win for the SPD team based on Stubbs's spelling prowess - correctly spelled the word, "madeleine" and it was over. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • This CD set is a like a musical time capsule, more effective than Proust's madeleine cake dipped in tea if you want to be transported back to 1971. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • Adventureland feels at once personal and generational, a Proustian madeleine for anyone who rode the roller coaster of post-adolescence while Iran-Contra was in prime time and Wang Chung on the radio. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • Nurse sex harassment allegations made moot coca is calling madeleine is. —  We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!
  • The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time), when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Lιonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of real or of lime-flower tea. —  Swann's Way
 

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  1. After Madeleine Paulmier, 19th-century French pastry cook.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French madeleine, from Madeleine, a feminine name. See maudlin.
 

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/mɑdˈleɪn/
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