brioche

See also: Brioche and brioché

English

A brioche

Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbriːɒʃ/, /briːˈɒʃ/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun

brioche (countable and uncountable, plural brioches)

1. (countable and uncountable) A type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin.

   Hypernym: viennoiserie

   Coordinate terms: croissant, pain au chocolat, Danish pastry

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     French brioche dough is especially rich in butter and eggs. It's often retarded […] for 6–18 hours to stiffen it, then rolled out and briefly rested.

   • 2017, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books, →ISBN, page 304:

     She sat him at the table in the saloon, then unobtrusively she made him tea and brought him slices of brioche spread with lock keeper’s honey.

2. (countable) A knitted cushion for the feet.

Translations

type of bun

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: brioix m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布莉歐／布莉欧 (bùlì'ōu)

• Czech: brioška (cs) f
• Dutch: brioche (nl)
• Finnish: briossi
• French: brioche (fr) f
• German: Brioche (de) f, Apostelkuchen m
• Hungarian: briós (hu)
• Ido: briocho (io)
• Italian: brioche (it) f, brioscia f
• Japanese: ブリオッシュ (Buriosshu)
• Korean: 브리오슈 (beuriosyu)
• Polish: brioche (pl) f, brioszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: brioche (pt) m
• Russian: брио́шь (ru) f (brióšʹ)
• Spanish: pan de yema m, bollo suizo m, brioche m
• Swedish: brioche (sv) c
• Turkish: briyoş
• Ukrainian: бріош f (brioš)

Further reading

• brioche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

une brioche française ― a French brioche (1)

Etymology

From Old French brier (“to break”) +‎ -oche; compare French broyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.jɔʃ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

brioche f (plural brioches)

1. (baking, cooking) brioche (type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Attributed to Marie Antoinette:

     Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

     Let them eat cake.

2. (figuratively) gaffe, blunder

   Synonyms: gaucherie, bévue, boulette

3. (informal) paunch, belly

   Synonym: bide

Derived terms

• avoir une brioche au four
• brioché

Descendants

Descendants of brioche in other languages

• → Catalan: brioix
• → English: brioche
• → German: Brioche
• → Hungarian: briós
• → Ido: briocho
• → Italian: brioche
• → Japanese: ブリオッシュ (buriosshu)
• → Portuguese: brioche
• → Sicilian: brioscia

Further reading

• “brioche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• brioche on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche, from Old French brier (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /briˈɔʃ/^*

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

Noun

brioche f (invariable)

1. a croissant, Danish pastry, or other sweet bun

   Synonyms: cornetto, croissant

See also

• cornetto m

Anagrams

• borchie, boriche, chiorbe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾiˈɔ.ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾiˈɔ.ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾiˈɔ.t͡ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: bri‧o‧che

Noun

brioche m (plural brioches)

1. (cooking) brioche (type of bun)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾjot͡ʃe/ [ˈbɾjo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: brio‧che

Noun

brioche m (plural brioches)

1. brioche (type of bun)

Further reading

• “brioche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014