Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see petit.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of petit four English)
Usage examples of "petit fours".
Vetoing petit fours (too fancy) and oatmeal cookies (too hearty), he settled on chocolate chip cookies and bought two pounds.
He clapped his hands and his servant came in sleepily with a tray of stale petit fours.
When she pulled three dozen petit fours from the oven she ate a dozen of them before she could get them iced.
Patiently Brianna finished icing the petit fours she'd baked for tea.
The baroness smiled a social smile, while stuffing her face with the dainty petit fours on the table beside her.
The Barrayaran embassy's kitchen had sent along a perfectly redundant three-tiered tray of little petit fours as well.
She had worked there for as long as he could remember, and had whacked his hands with a wooden spoon whenever shed caught him trying to sneak one of the petit fours she baked for Noelles luncheons.
But it was being fed to him in little morsels, like petit fours at one of his mother's fancy parties.
We were still planning little sandwiches and petit fours and onions cut into daisies when the doctor came in for supper.
When dinner was over she brought a plate of petit fours in silver wrappers and a bottle of schnapps.