quatre-quarts
See also: quatre quarts
English edit
Noun edit
quatre-quarts (plural quatre-quartses)
- Alternative form of quatre quart
Noun edit
quatre-quarts
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “four quarters”, as it is one quarter each of flour, sugar, butter and eggs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quatre-quarts m (plural quatre-quarts)
- pound cake (dense yellow sponge)
Hypernyms edit
Derived terms edit
- gâteau quatre-quarts
- quatre-quarts moelleux
- gâteau quatre-quarts moelleux
Descendants edit
- English: quatre quart
Further reading edit
- “quatre-quarts”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.