Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small rich cake, baked in a shell-shaped mold.
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- noun A small
gateau or spongecake , often shaped like an elongatedscallop shell. - noun Something which brings back a
memory ; a source ofnostalgia orevocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The first is a crossing of a French table grape called madeleine angevin with the much frowned-upon muller-thurgau.
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Shortly after the book begins the narrator describes a moment on a wintry day when, chilled to the bone, his mother brings him a cup of tea with a little cake called a madeleine on the side.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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The cricket writer Mike Marqusee once said that cricket sometimes acts on him the way the tea-cake called a madeleine acted on Marcel Proust, triggering a hidden chain of association, an entryway to what the French novelist called 'a vast structure of recollection '.
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The cricket writer Mike Marqusee once said that cricket sometimes acts on him the way the tea-cake called a madeleine acted on Marcel Proust, triggering a hidden chain of association, an entryway to what the French novelist called 'a vast structure of recollection '.
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Nurse sex harassment allegations made moot coca is calling madeleine is.
We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you! 2008
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-- Emily Flynn VencatCopenhagen: Madeleines MadteaterThe "madeleine" comes from the little cake Marcel Proust wistfully described in "Remembrance of Things Past."
The Good Life 2007
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For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid."
The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages Michael Poliakoff 2007
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My sister and I felt socially deprived because we couldn't sit on the pub steps waiting for crisps and lemonade like our pals - while the air was filled with the sound of the piano and singing - and the "madeleine" smell of beer and cigarette smoke.
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Then, the SPD team had to spell one more word correctly to affirm the result, and Leos - who on Wednesday predicted a win for the SPD team based on Stubbs's spelling prowess - correctly spelled the word, "madeleine" and it was over.
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Then, the SPD team had to spell one more word correctly to affirm the result, and Leos - who on Wednesday predicted a win for the SPD team based on Stubbs's spelling prowess - correctly spelled the word, "madeleine" and it was over.
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