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• madeleine
  madeleine

  noun

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

  noun

  a female given name, form of Magdalene.

madeleine

¹ American  

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

noun

French Cooking.

madeleines plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• madeleines
  plural

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

Olly: curiouser and curiouser madeline whittier Sunday, 8:22 P.M.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Olly: do you have a nickname madeline furukawa whittier or am i expected to call you madeline furukawa whittier?

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon