gateau

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6

Definition of gateau

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
    “a gateau of veal”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.

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