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petit beurre

American  
[puh-tee bœr] / pə ti ˈbœr /

noun

French Cooking.

plural

petits beurre

  1. a small, usually oblong butter cookie.

Etymology

Origin of petit beurre

1905–10; < French: literally, little butter

Example Sentences

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I couldn’t find Thé Brun in America, so I constructed the cake with Petit Beurre cookies.

From New York Times

They all sat down at midnight, wrapped up in their travelling coats and not at all too much tired to sip grenadine sucr�e and to crunch Petit Beurre biscuits.

From Project Gutenberg

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