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galette
- /ɡəˈlɛt/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɛt
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Borrowed from French galette.
noun galettes
- A type of flat, round cake from France. NATIONAL FRENCH CAKE OR GALETTE. Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins,
- Clipping of Breton galette (“a crêpe or pancake made with buckwheat flour, and often with a savoury filling, originally from Upper Brittany in France”). We skipped dessert and walked down through the raindrops to a bake-shop to sample the flat Breton galette, made of sugar, eggs, butter, and flour […]
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Talk about this word "galette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/galette. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. galette. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/galette "galette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/galette.
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@misc{galette_2026,
title = {galette},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/galette},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
