frangipane
Americannoun
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a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
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the filling used in such a pastry.
noun
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a pastry filled with cream and flavoured with almonds
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a rich cake mixture containing ground almonds
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a variant of frangipani
Etymology
Origin of frangipane
1670–80; < French < Italian. See frangipani
Vocabulary lists containing frangipane
Example Sentences
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It involves a few extra steps—making almond frangipane, apple butter and apple glaze—but they’re what makes this the best galette I’ve ever tasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Make frangipane, and so on, and so on.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Hers features an any-nut frangipane you can slather onto staled panettone, croissants, brioche or even white bread and top with your choice of nuts and fruit.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2021
Free-form rustic galettes layered with frangipane and sweet pears.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
An excellent dinner—soup, roast mutton, fresh beans, salade Russe, frangipane, dessert—and even champagne to celebrate the General's cravate—quite reassured us that people may die in Verdun of shells but not of hunger.
From The White Road to Verdun by Burke, Kathleen
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