tartlet
English
Alternative forms
- tartlette (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tartelet, from Old French tartelette; equivalent to tart + -let.
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Noun
tartlet (plural tartlets)
- A small tart (pastry).
- 1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51:
- Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.
- (derogatory, slang) A promiscuous young woman.
- 1992, Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2010, →ISBN:
- The only excitement I had was watching a tartlet in a teeny-weeny bikini that barely contained her truly mammoth assets light a cigarette and suck on it with puckered, painted, Lolita lips.
- 2010, Pastor Shirley, S.E.C.R.E.T.S. of the First Ladies, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, page 77:
- She hated that a large chunk of Jerry's income supported his little tartlets instead of being directed into their household as it should have been..
- 2012 July 29, Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why”, in The Globe and Mail:
- I have yet to see a Hollywood tartlet apologize for weighing 95 pounds, or for playing dumb to stay popular, or for always being the sidekick when there's action.
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