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• gâteau

語源

Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.

発音

• 韻: -ætəʊ, -əʊ

名詞

gateau (countable and uncountable, plural gateaux or gateaus)

1. (chiefly UK) A rich, usually iced, cake.
   • 2009, Dorothy Cannell, She Shoots to Conquer, Alibi, published 2016, →ISBN:

     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. (cooking, obsolete) 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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