Madeleine definitions

măd'ə-lĕn'
A small rich cake, baked in a shell-shaped mold.
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A type of small, rich cake baked in a shell-shaped mold.
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A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
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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).
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A female given name.
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Origin of madeleine

From French madeleine, earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, of uncertain origin; attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier whose existence is now considered dubious. (Compare Oxford English Dictionary, Trésor de la Langue Française)

Sentence Examples

  • He took a leading part in the negotiations connected with the king's marriages, first with Madeleine of France, and afterwards with Mary of Guise.

  • Madeleine belongs to the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • He married Pauline Cassin, the authoress of the Peelle de Madeleine and other well-known novels.

  • Its highest altitudes are found in the south-east, in the Bois-Noirs, where one point reaches 4239 ft., and in the Monts de la Madeleine.

  • They are called from the places in France where the most typical finds of palaeolithic remains have been made - Chellian from Chelles, a few miles east of Paris; Mousterian from the cave of Moustier on the river V ezere, Dordogne; Solutrian from the cave at Solutre near Macon; and Madelenian from the rocky shelter of La Madeleine, Dordogne.

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