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tartlette

tartlette is the obsolete form of tartlet.

Meaning of tartlet

Noun

tartlet (plural tartlets)

  1. A small tart (pastry).
    • Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51
  2. (derogatory, slang) A promiscuous young woman.
    • The only excitement I had was watching a tartlet in a teeny-weeny bikini that barely contained her truly mammoth assets light a cigarette and suck on it with puckered, painted, Lolita lips.1992, Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2010, →ISBN

Forms of tartlette

pluraltartlettes

Questions about tartlette

What is tartlette the obsolete form of?
Tartlette is the obsolete form of tartlet.

Words near tartlette in the dictionary

  1. Tartini tones
  2. Tartinian
  3. tartish
  4. tartlet
  5. tartlets
  6. tartlette
  7. tartlettes
  8. tartlike
  9. tartly
  10. tartness
  11. tartnesse

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