madeleine

¹ American  

[mad-l-in, mad-l-eyn, mad^uh-len] / ˈmæd l ɪn, ˌmæd lˈeɪn, madəˈlɛn /

noun

French Cooking.

plural

madeleines

1. a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.

2. something that triggers memories or nostalgia: in allusion to a nostalgic passage in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

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Madeleine ² American  

[mad-l-in, -lahyn, mad^uh-len] / ˈmæd l ɪn, -ˌlaɪn, madəˈlɛn /

Also Madelaine,

noun

1. a female given name, form of Magdalene.

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madeleine British  

/ -ˌleɪn, ˈmædəlɪn /

noun

1. a small fancy sponge cake

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Etymology

Origin of madeleine

1835–45; < French, earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the female given name; the attribution of the recipe to an 18th-century cook named Madeleine Pau(l)mier is unsubstantiated

Example Sentences

The chief executive of IPSEA, Madeleine Cassidy, welcomed some reforms, including plans to boost the funding and specialist support available in mainstream schools, but said that improvements could be made "without weakening the legal rights families rely on".

From BBC

Barrister Madeleine Wolfe, who represented Lancashire, said she had reacted to the attention she was getting online.

From BBC

As a week of hearings came to a close on Friday, Crown lawyer Madeleine Laracy urged the court to dismiss Tarrant's case because he had no legal defence to offer at trial and conviction was certain, state broadcaster RNZ reported.

From Barron's

“There’s a lot of work to be done on how we do collaborate and work together to develop this industry,” Madeleine King, Australia’s mining minister, said Feb. 4.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 190m-long boring machine is named Madeleine, after Madeleine Nobbs, the former president of the Women's Engineering Society.

From BBC