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madeleine (iou)



madeleine noun. M19.
[French, prob. from Madeleine Paulmier, 19th-cent. French pastry-cook.]
A (kind of) small rich cake, in French cookery baked in a fluted tin, and in English cookery usu. baked in a dariole mould and decorated with coconut and jam.