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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, square-cut, frosted and decorated piece of pound cake or sponge cake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of a large buffet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French petit four (literally "small oven"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French : petit, little + four, oven. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. cake

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  1. food
  1. dessert
  1. cake

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  • treeseed a small cake cut from pound or sponge cake and frosted Jan 22, 2008

  • elvesoncrack My favorite cake. Jan 25, 2007

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