gateau
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See also: gâteau
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Noun
gateau (countable and uncountable, plural gateaux or gateaus)
- (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.
- (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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rich, iced cake
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