Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small rich cake, baked in a shell-shaped mold.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From French madeleine, earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, of uncertain origin; attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier whose existence is now considered dubious. (Compare Oxford English Dictionary, Trésor de la Langue Française) (Wiktionary)
- After Madeleine Paulmier, 19th-century French pastry cook. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first is a crossing of a French table grape called madeleine angevin with the much frowned-upon muller-thurgau.”
“Shortly after the book begins the narrator describes a moment on a wintry day when, chilled to the bone, his mother brings him a cup of tea with a little cake called a madeleine on the side.”
“The cricket writer Mike Marqusee once said that cricket sometimes acts on him the way the tea-cake called a madeleine acted on Marcel Proust, triggering a hidden chain of association, an entryway to what the French novelist called 'a vast structure of recollection '.”
“Nurse sex harassment allegations made moot coca is calling madeleine is.”
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“-- Emily Flynn VencatCopenhagen: Madeleines MadteaterThe "madeleine" comes from the little cake Marcel Proust wistfully described in "Remembrance of Things Past.”
“For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid.”
“My sister and I felt socially deprived because we couldn't sit on the pub steps waiting for crisps and lemonade like our pals - while the air was filled with the sound of the piano and singing - and the "madeleine" smell of beer and cigarette smoke.”
“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.”
“Freud shows up on page 53; Proust’s "madeleine" 99 pages later; Eve Ensler is sandwiched somewhere in between.”
“Waiters circulated with trays of madeleine cookies—Marcel Proust's favorite treat in "Remembrance of Things Past.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘madeleine’.
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Sue's favorite words
panache, flair, pantaloons, periwinkle, pumpernickel, persnickety, cachet, coquette, élan, iris, ambrosia, keen and 99 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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L'Engle Lingo
Words from books by Madeleine L'Engle.
tesseract, sport, fewmets, Madoc, kything, echthroi, naming, kairos, a swiftly tilting..., a ring of endless..., a wind in the door, a wrinkle in time and 3 more...
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C is for Cookie
chocolate chip, sugar, butter, oatmeal, peanut butter, pinwheel, snickerdoodle, shortbread, butterscotch, refrigerator, icebox, Girl Scout and 42 more...
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BN
élan, plum, meraki, anthology, midori, alegria, novel, circa, madeleine, felicity, odette, ode
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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Antique Names: Female
These names were once in common use - at least somewhat. Some are coming back. Some are almost forgotten. I think they would
make lovely names. Well... most of them.araminta, abigail, agnes, biddie, celestia, celestine, celia, ceola, chloe, claire, clementine, cordie and 179 more...
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Being a list of words and phrases from Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, by Lawrence Weschler.
wonder, spore, Madalena Delani, ant, rampant, obliscence, Korsakov's syndrome, memory, illusion, time, Cone of Obliscence, Plane of Experience and 95 more...
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know-it-all
eunuch, couvade, ecclesiastes, enigma, inevitable, crucible, genteel, bedlam, baculum, scapulimancy, atrophy, smut and 170 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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On The Menu
diver scallop, grilled porcini, lavender-fennel p..., roasted cranberri..., carmelized walnut..., cardamom-molasses..., bittersweet choco..., rosemary flatbread, eggplant veloute, fennel gratin, rollmops, jugged hare and 122 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Proustian
vetiver, cheval-glass, ossature, transvertebration, orris-root, ferruginous, viaticum, rep, senescence, bengal light, madeleine, lime-blossom and 109 more...
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