gateau
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of gateau
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(UK, countable, uncountable)A rich, usually iced, cake.
“Determined on keeping up my strength for what the night might bring, I ate heartily—enjoying every morsel, especially of the two slices of gateau I didn’t feel it wrong to take as my share, since there was still one good-sized piece left for Judy.”
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noun
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(UK, countable, uncountable)A rich, usually iced, cake.
“Determined on keeping up my strength for what the night might bring, I ate heartily—enjoying every morsel, especially of the two slices of gateau I didn’t feel it wrong to take as my share, since there was still one good-sized piece left for Judy.”
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
“a gateau of veal”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.
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