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gateaux

gateaux is the plural of gateau.

Meaning of gateau

Noun

gateau (countable and uncountable, plural gateaux or gateaus)

  1. (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
  2. (obsolete) A dish of minced meat made up like a pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould.
    • a gateau of veal

Phrases with gateaux

Questions about gateaux

What is gateaux the plural of?
Gateaux is the plural of gateau.

Words near gateaux in the dictionary

  1. gateado
  2. gateados
  3. gateage
  4. gateau
  5. gateaus
  6. gateaux
  7. GaTech
  8. gatecrash
  9. gatecrashed
  10. gatecrasher
  11. gatecrashers

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