gateau
nounEtymology Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.
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UK A rich, usually iced, cake.
- Determined on keeping up my strength for what the night might bring, I ate heartily—enjoying every morsel, especially of the two slices of gateau I didn’t feel it wrong to take as my share, since there was still one good-sized piece left for Judy.2009, Dorothy Cannell, She Shoots to Conquer, Alibi, published 2016, →ISBN:
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Cooking, Food, Lifestyle Obsolete A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
- a gateau of veal
- Derived terms
- Black Forest gateau