Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, square-cut, frosted and decorated piece of pound cake or sponge cake.
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- noun A small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of a large buffet.
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- noun small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French : petit, little + four, oven.]
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Borrowing from French petit four (literally "small oven").
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elvesoncrack commented on the word petit four
My favorite cake.
January 26, 2007
treeseed commented on the word petit four
a small cake cut from pound or sponge cake and frosted
January 23, 2008