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  • noun Plural form of gauffre.

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Examples

  • There is a delicious syrup of mixed spices (at least the palate of faith must believe it to have been delicious) and a powder of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and sugar, to be sifted over food, as sugar is sifted today; there is a recipe for hippocras, and for 'gauffres' or wafers, and for candied oranges.

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • After further drinking, gauffres, cheese, peeled almonds, pears, spices and walnuts were called for, and the feast ended in songs.

    The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

  • She used to look fondly at her token and try to make herself believe that his strong teeth had bitten the deep gauffres into its edge.

    Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.

    The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850

  • Cheap eats: Brussels is rightly famous for French fries, waffles and mussels - frites, gauffres and moules in French.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • PetalBelle's specialty is the "Liege" waffle or gauffres a rather cakey waffle sold on every street corner on the home front ...

    paris breakfasts 2009

  • PetalBelle's specialty is the "Liege" waffle or gauffres a rather cakey waffle sold on every street corner on the home front ...

    The EDM SuperBlog 2009

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