Madeleine vs Cupcake - What's the difference?
madeleine | cupcake |
A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
* 1981 , CK Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 44:
* 2003 , Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts , Chronicle Books 2003, p. 20:
Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time ).
* 2001 , James Carroll, Constantine's Sword , Houghton-Mifflin 2001, p. 223:
* 2005 , Roger Ebert, Rogert Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 , p. 784:
A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
(slang) An attractive young woman.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 604:
(slang) A weak or effeminate man.
(dated) (Used as a term of endearment)
* 2010 , Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
As a proper noun madeleine
is .As a noun cupcake is
a small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.madeleine
English
(wikipedia madeleine)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.
- The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine , of Jewish evil.
- 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 .
cupcake
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
- “Listen, cupcake ,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”