palmier
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French palmier, ellipsis of feuille de palmier (“palm tree leaf”), the original name of this pastry.
Noun
palmier (plural palmiers)
- A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.
- Synonym: elephant ear
- 2007 January 30, Lily Koppel, “In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times:
- Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French palmier. By surface analysis, palme + -ier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pal.mje/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -je
- Homophone: palmiers
- Hyphenation: pal‧mier
Noun
palmier m (plural palmiers)
- palm, palm tree
- Hypernyms: arbre, monocotylédone
- Hyponyms: aréquier, dattier, palmier à huile, palmier des Canaries
- (baking) palmier (biscuit)
Derived terms
- palmeraie (“palm grove”)
- palmier à chanvre
- palmier à huile (“oil palm”)
- palmier à sucre
- palmier dattier
- palmier de Bismarck
- palmier de Chine
- palmier de Madagascar
- palmier des Canaries
- palmier des Everglades (“Everglades palm”)
- palmier marin
- palmier nain
- palmier rônier
Descendants
- → Romanian: palmier
Further reading
- “palmier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “palmier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “palmier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
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Anagrams
Romanian
Declension
Declension of palmier
References
- palmier in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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