Madeleine

Word MADELEINE
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈmad(ə)lɛn/

Definitions and meanings of "Madeleine"

What do we mean by madeleine?

A small rich cake, baked in a shell-shaped mold. noun

A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell. noun

Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time). noun

A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.

Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.

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The word "madeleine" in example sentences

The first is a crossing of a French table grape called madeleine angevin with the much frowned-upon muller-thurgau. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Michael Goldfarb (2009)

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 '. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nurse sex harassment allegations made moot coca is calling madeleine is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

-- Emily Flynn VencatCopenhagen: Madeleines MadteaterThe "madeleine" comes from the little cake Marcel Proust wistfully described in "Remembrance of Things Past." ❋ Unknown (2007)

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." ❋ Michael Poliakoff (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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