madeleine

[mad-l-in, mad-l-eyn, mad^uh-len]

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noun

French Cooking.

plural

madeleines

a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
something that triggers memories or nostalgia: in allusion to a nostalgic passage in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Madeleine

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[mad-l-in, -lahyn, mad^uh-len]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a female given name, form of Magdalene.

madeleine

/ -ˌleɪn, ˈmædəlɪn /

noun

a small fancy sponge cake

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Word History and Origins

Origin of madeleine¹

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of madeleine¹

C19: perhaps after Madeleine Paulmier, French pastry cook

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Example Sentences

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Madeleine Stone, senior advocacy officer at the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said they had been contacted by more than 35 people who have complained of being wrongly placed on facial recognition watchlists.

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From the English woman who lived at the time above the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, to the former neighbour of the main suspect in the case.

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Closure now would mean either finding Madeleine McCann's body, or finding her living with another family, unable to remember her parents or her younger twin siblings.

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How that shock of realisation that Madeleine was not in her bed turned into minutes, then hours, and then days of panic.

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For 13 years there was no single theory as to what happened to Madeleine McCann.

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Madeira vine Albright, Madeleine

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