palmier
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French palmier, ellipsis of feuille de palmier (“palm tree leaf”), the original name of this pastry.
Noun
[edit]palmier (plural palmiers)
- A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
- Synonym: elephant ear
- 2007 January 30, Lily Koppel, “In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times[1]:
- Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).
Translations
[edit]puff pastry
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palmier
- comparative form of palmy: more palmy
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French palmier. By surface analysis, palme + -ier.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]palmier m (plural palmiers)
- palm, palm tree
- Hypernyms: arbre, monocotylédone
- Hyponyms: aréquier, dattier, palmier à huile, palmier des Canaries
- (baking) palmier (biscuit)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “palmier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “palmier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “palmier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Paronyms
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French palmier (“palm tree”).
Noun
[edit]palmier m (plural palmieri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of palmier
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) palmier | palmierul | (niște) palmieri | palmierii |
genitive/dative | (unui) palmier | palmierului | (unor) palmieri | palmierilor |
vocative | palmierule | palmierilor |
References
[edit]- palmier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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