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tompouce

tompouce noun: a pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.

tompouce: a pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille
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Noun

tompouce (countable and uncountable, plural tompouces)

  1. A pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.
    • Because their royal dynasty is the House of Orange, locals don’t paint the town red, but orange. They also dress themselves and often their pets in orange, paint their faces orange and wear orange wigs; even tompouce – the popular local, cream-filled pastries – get orange icing on the day.2017 January 23, Pat Richardson, “12 bucket list cruise holidays (one for each month of the year)”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
    • Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces?2023 June 23, “DutchNews podcast: The Megabrothel Roadblock Edition”, in DutchNews.nl, Amsterdam: Dutch News BV, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2023

Forms of tompouce

pluraltompouces

Origin of tompouce

From Dutch tompoes, from French Tom Pouce, the French translation of English Tom Thumb.

Questions about tompouce

What does tompouce mean?
Tompouce means a pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.
What part of speech is tompouce?
Tompouce is a noun.
What is the plural of tompouce?
The plural of tompouce is tompouces.

Words near tompouce in the dictionary

  1. tompons
  2. tompot
  3. tompot blennies
  4. tompot blenny
  5. tompots
  6. tompouce
  7. tompouces
  8. TOMPs
  9. Tompsett
  10. Tompson
  11. tomrig

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