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crepe suzette

crepe suzette is the alternative form of crêpe Suzette.

Meaning of crêpe Suzette

Noun

crêpe Suzette (plural crêpes Suzette or crêpe Suzettes)

  1. A dessert comprising a crêpe (pancake) topped with caramel and orange sauce and Grand Marnier, then flambéed.
    • “I was a stranger in town and so was the Prince of Wales, then known as King Edward VII to his intimates. He asked me why I didn’t make a pancake which would taste like an orange, only with a pancake flavor. / “‘Why don’t you?’ I asked him right back. / “But finally he wheedled me into doing it...1936, Robert Benchley, “Notes”, in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 277
    Synonyms:
    Suzette

Noun capitalized: crepe Suzette

crepe Suzette (plural crepes Suzette or crepe Suzettes)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of crêpe Suzette.
    • Reinhart served him a crepe Suzette. The old-timer took the entire triangle of it into the back of his mouth and swallowed it whole, as if it were an oyster.1981, Thomas Berger, chapter 6, in Reinhart’s Women, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 87
    • Some people aren’t easily impressed. Linda Dudicz O’Meara, for example, remembers a time when her family went to a fancy restaurant where a waiter proudly presented crepes Suzette as the ultimate dessert. “My dad said, ‘Gee, they look just like nalesniki,’” laughs Linda, of Elmer Drive NE, “and...1990 June 11, Karin Orr, “Ukrainian crepes just like Suzettes”, in The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D3

Forms of crepe suzette

pluralcrepes suzette
pluralcrepe suzettes
pluralcrepes Suzette
pluralcrepe Suzettes

Questions about crepe suzette

What is crepe suzette the alternative form of?
Crepe suzette is the alternative form of crêpe Suzette.
What part of speech is crepe suzette?
Crepe suzette is a noun.
What is the plural of crepe suzette?
The plural of crepe suzette is crepes suzette.

Words near crepe suzette in the dictionary

  1. crepe paper
  2. crepe papers
  3. crepe rubber
  4. crepe rubbers
  5. crepe sole
  6. crepe suzette
  7. crepe suzettes
  8. Crepeau
  9. Crepeaus
  10. creped
  11. crepehanger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crepe suzette (page history and authors); crepe Suzette (page history and authors); crêpe Suzette (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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