madeleine

[ mad-l-in, mad-l-eyn; French maduh-len ]

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noun

French Cooking.

plural madeleines

a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
something that triggers memories or nostalgia: in allusion to a nostalgic passage in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Madeleine

[ mad-l-in, -lahyn; French maduh-len ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a female given name, form of Magdalene.

madeleine

/ -ˌleɪn; ˈmædəlɪn /

noun

a small fancy sponge cake

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Word History and Origins

Origin of madeleine¹

1835–45; < French, earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the female given name; the attribution of the recipe to an 18th-century cook named Madeleine Pau(l)mier is unsubstantiated

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Word History and Origins

Origin of madeleine¹

C19: perhaps after Madeleine Paulmier, French pastry cook

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Example Sentences

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Two women have denied stalking the family of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in 2007.

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Madeleine's disappearance at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.

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Ministers have approved more than £100,000 in additional funding for Scotland Yard detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

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Madeleine, from Rothley in Leicestershire, was three when she vanished while on holiday with her parents in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

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He has denied all the charges against him and any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.

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Madeira vine Albright, Madeleine

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