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petit beurre

[puh-tee bœr]

noun

French Cooking.

plural

petits beurre 
  1. a small, usually oblong butter cookie.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of petit beurre1

1905–10; < French: literally, little butter
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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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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.

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