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Tres Leches Cake is a Latin American treat, but over at the fun food Weblog The Bitten Word, they made a chocolate version which looks just scrumptdillyicious, as they said in the old Dairy Queen ads.

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  1. transitive verb To act or behave in a specified manner toward.
  2. transitive verb To regard and handle in a certain way. Often used with as: treated the matter as a joke.
  3. transitive verb To deal with in writing or speech; discuss: a book that treats all aspects of health care.
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  • In our household the T-word is taboo unless a treat is actually forthcoming, so it always works. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • There is quite a lot of centrifical force at those speeds, and unless the treat is attached really well and pretty strong, it may fly appart. —  Make - All Discussions
  • Tres Leches Cake is a Latin American treat, but over at the fun food Weblog The Bitten Word, they made a chocolate version which looks just scrumptdillyicious, as they said in the old Dairy Queen ads. —  Pop Culture Junk Mail
  • Jennings, who spent 12 years on patrol and four years on the vice-narcotics unit, found he enjoyed the night shift and K-9 work once he started with Draco, whose favorite treat is French fries. —  News for InsideNova.com
  • Another treat are the town's fresh oysters that cost just —  TODAYonline
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

diversion ·  dessert ·  entertainment ·  feast ·  snack ·  beverage ·  holiday ·  supper ·  outing ·  picnic ·  recipe ·  morsel

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treat:   treating ·  treated ·  treats
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English tretien, from Old French traitier, from Latin tractāre, frequentative of trahere, to draw.

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  1. Also trete; from Old French trait, tret, a drawing (in many uses), from Latin tractus, drawing. See tract, n.
  2. Early modern English also sometimes traict; from Middle English treten, from Old French treter, traiter, traicter F. traiter =Provencal traetar =Spanish Portuguese tratar =Italian trattare, from Latin tractare, handle, freq. of trahere, draw: see tract, tract, v. Cf. entreat, retreat.
  3. from Middle English trete (orig. in two syllables: see treaty): see the verb.
 

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