gâteau
See also: gateau
English Edit
Noun Edit
gâteau (plural gâteaux or gâteaus)
- Alternative form of gateau
- 2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism (page 88)
- Julie was a froster, the glamour job at the factory. She wore her cute white hat cocked at a jaunty angle while working a big white bag of frosting, twisting it rapidly in her hands to create the various designs on top of the gâteaux.
- 2016, Martha Grimes, Ken Grimes, Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism (page 88)
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Inherited from Middle French gasteau, from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat; consume”). Compare Old English wist (“food; provision; feast”) and obsolete English wastel, Sicilian guasteḍḍa (“a kind of round bread”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
gâteau m (plural gâteaux)
- a sponge cake, i.e. a cake made with a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy (as opposed to a denser torte)
- (Louisiana) a cookie
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Further reading Edit
- “gâteau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.