galette

as in cake
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried a golden-brown galette of lightly buttered and sautéed potato slices

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Recent Examples of galette The classic French version, the galette des rois, is a puff pastry cake usually filled with frangipane—a sweet cream made from almonds, butter, sugar, and eggs. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025 Take your pick of savory buckwheat crêpes and galettes topped with comté cheese and ham or go for something sweet like salted caramel and Chantilly cream. Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025 Other treats, like savory quiches, muffins, and galettes, are more than worthy, too. Meira Gebel, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 Add a smidge to your favorite nut or snack mix, fall fruit galette, banana bread, sugar cookie dough, cream cheese frosting, carrot loaf cake, or granola. Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for galette
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  • Gabriel, especially, was the icing on the cake for those who were baffled that Sanders hadn't gone off the board, as some experts didn’t have him on their top five quarterback rankings heading into the draft.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Paton last year said the Broncos were preparing a cake when the coach almost, but not quite, triggered a move back on Day 2 of the draft.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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    Mike Snider, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The namesake Bad Boy Burger ($11.99) is two quarter-pound patties, bacon, American cheese, Swiss cheese, chili, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup and mustard.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Galette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galette. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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