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• gâteau
  gâteau

  noun

  a cake, especially a very light sponge cake with a rich icing or filling.
• gateau
  gateau

  noun

  any of various elaborate cakes, usually layered with cream and richly decorated

gâteau

American  

[ga-toh, gah-, gah-toh] / gæˈtoʊ, gɑ-, gɑˈtoʊ /

noun

French Cooking.

gâteaux plural

1. a cake, especially a very light sponge cake with a rich icing or filling.

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gateau British  

/ ˈɡætəʊ /

noun

1. any of various elaborate cakes, usually layered with cream and richly decorated

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noun

• gâteaux
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gâteau

1835–45; < French; Old French gastel (compare Middle English wastel < Old North French ) < Frankish *wastil, perhaps akin to Old English, Old Saxon wist food, nourishment

Example Sentences

“I had never seen anything like this,” said Marie Yolene Gateau, a retired New York City guidance counselor who lives in Leogane, Haiti, a town that was largely flattened in the 2010 earthquake.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

At one government hospital in Port-au-Prince that hasn’t been closed by the strike, doctors have not reported a single case of the virus, said medical director C. Henry Gateau.

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2016

I got the first one at Le Gateau.

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian