madeleine
See also: Madeleine
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.
In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
madeleine (plural madeleines)
- A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
- 1981, Marcel Proust, CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin (translators), Swann's Way, Folio Society, published 2005, page 44:
- And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray […] my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.
- 2003, Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts, Chronicle Books, page 20:
- Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.
- (figuratively) Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.
- 2001, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword, Houghton-Mifflin, page 223:
- The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine, of Jewish evil.
- 2005, Roger Ebert, Rogert Ebert's Movie Yearbook, page 784:
- Every five years or so, in the middle of another task, I'll look at them and a particular cover will bring memory flooding back like a madeleine.
Translations
small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell
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Further reading
- “madeleine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “madeleine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
madeleine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from French madeleine.
Pronunciation
Noun
madeleine
Declension
Inflection of madeleine (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | madeleine | madeleinet | ||
genitive | madeleinen | madeleinejen | ||
partitive | madeleinea | madeleineja | ||
illative | madeleineen | madeleineihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | madeleine | madeleinet | ||
accusative | nom. | madeleine | madeleinet | |
gen. | madeleinen | |||
genitive | madeleinen | madeleinejen madeleinein rare | ||
partitive | madeleinea | madeleineja | ||
inessive | madeleinessa | madeleineissa | ||
elative | madeleinesta | madeleineista | ||
illative | madeleineen | madeleineihin | ||
adessive | madeleinella | madeleineilla | ||
ablative | madeleinelta | madeleineilta | ||
allative | madeleinelle | madeleineille | ||
essive | madeleinena | madeleineina | ||
translative | madeleineksi | madeleineiksi | ||
abessive | madeleinetta | madeleineitta | ||
instructive | — | madeleinein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology
From earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: see more above.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
madeleine f (plural madeleines)
- madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)
- (figuratively) madeleine (something which brings back a memory)
Further reading
- “madeleine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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