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madeleine | macaroon |

As a proper noun madeleine

is .

As a noun macaroon is

a soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.

madeleine

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
  • And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray [...] my aunt LĂ©onie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.
  • * 2003 , Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts , Chronicle Books 2003, p. 20:
  • Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.
  • 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:
  • 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 2005 , p. 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 .

    macaroon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.