barquette

[bahr-ket]

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noun

a small, boat-shaped pastry shell filled with a savory or sweet mixture and served as an hors d'oeuvre or dessert.

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From French; barque, -ette

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Tunis Latham did not make a practice of patronizing places similar to the Barquette when he ate alone.

"There's the Barquette," said Miss Bostwick, with the air of one used daily to the grandeur of such hostelries.

Ida May Bostwick remembered the lunch at Barquette's.

"You remember that nice-looking farmer that came in to speak to me that time and took me to lunch at Barquette's?" she asked Miss Leary.

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