barquette

English

Noun

barquette (plural barquettes)

1. A kind of small sailboat.
2. A small boat-shaped pastry shell with a sweet or savoury filling.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French barquette, first attested ca. 1320 (discounting an adjective in nef barquette, 1238).

Synchronically analyzed as barque +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.kɛt/

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Noun

barquette f (plural barquettes)

1. A small boat
2. punnet, small box, small tub, small tub
3. painted comber, Serranus scriba
4. (motoring) prototype
5. A stretcher
6. barquette (kind of filled pastry)

Further reading

• “barquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.