Crossword clues for gateau
gateau
- Rich sponge cake
- French sponge cake
- Richly iced sponge cake
- Petit four, e.g
- French sweet
- Decadent cake
- Richly decorated cake
- Rich, elaborate cake
- Rich, custard-filled cake
- Posh cake
- Pâtisserie cake
- Light sponge cake
- Fancy French cake
- Elaborate cake
- Cake: Fr
- Cake, in France
- Cake, in Cannes
- Cake, in Calais
- Cake (from the Black Forest?)
- (French?) cake
- Cake: Fr.
- Bistro dessert
- French cake
- Any of various rich and elaborate cakes
- Fancy cake
- Petit four, e.g.
- German consumed half of relative's cake
- Crowd needs gold for elaborate cake
- Cake or drink served in most of France at one time
- Cake and a drink in heart of Burgundy
- Opening a University? It’s more than a piece of cake
- Something French for 22?
- Rich cream cake
- Rich cake
- Playing at Oval for a bit of radio commentary cake
- Delicacy journalist wasted
- Rich dessert
- French pastry
- Light, custard-filled cake
- Calorie-laden cake
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gateau \ga*teau"\, gateau \g[^a]*teau"\(g[.a]*t[=o]"), n. [F. cake.] (Cookery) Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from French gâteau "cake," from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil "cake," from Proto-Germanic *was-tilaz, from PIE *wes- "to eat, consume."
Wiktionary
alt. (context mostly UK English) A rich, usually iced, cake. n. (context mostly UK English) A rich, usually iced, cake.
WordNet
n. any of various rich and elaborate cakes
[also: gateaux (pl)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "gateau".
Not surprisingly, the pastry chef had already started in on his daily stock of fruit tarts and millefeuilles, his cream puffs and eclairs, his multi tiered gateaux, and his signature swans of choux pastry.
Bring me the biggest, gooiest chocolate gateau you have, and a big spoon!
She settled for consomme Madrilene, salmon cutlets Mornay, crown roast of lamb with saffron rice and then, since strawberries were to he had, a meringue gateau, topped with lashings of cream.
Comte, who sat opposite, was constantly calling out to me to know what I would eat and offer me petits gateaux, claret and Madeira, etc.
As far as Artemis could tell, the Black Forest gateau had cushioned his impact sufficiently to avoid serious internal injury.
She'd heard the gossip, knew how close Keita and that Cadre major, Gateau, were to Alicia DeVries, but Keita's flagship was ten light-minutes astern of her.
The river is to the left of the dessert fork, which is used for gateaux and puddings.
She had lost a great deal of weight, yet here she sat eating gateau, drinking chocolate, with the accustomed appetite of a famished child.
Such was the speed with which my dining partners consumed the provends set before them that they beat me by half a course and, to my frank horror, between them consumed the last of the profiteroles and Black Forest gateau from the sweet trolley.
The Captain had watched with set features whilst the tramp devoured two bowls of soup, all the shepherds pie, a plate of potatoes, two double helpings of peas, a bowl of custard and a large slice of chocolate gateau.
Major Tannis Gateau, Imperial Cadre Medical Branch, turned her name tag up to scrutinize it, then nodded.