langues de chat

Noun

langue de chat (plural langues de chat)

1. Synonym of cat's tongue; small chocolate biscuit shaped like a the tongue of a cat.
   • My grandmother would have been ashamed to have less than two kinds of rich homemade cake in the big cake box on ber pantry shelf. Usually there were three or four. And I hate to think of what she would have said had she gone out to dinner and been offered for dessert a compote of fruit and a dry...1935 September 21, Sophie Kerr, “Twenty Years of Dinner Parties”, in Saturday Evening Post, volume 208, number 12, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 32

   Synonyms:

   cat's tongue