langue de chat

Unadapted borrowing from French langue de chat.

langue de chat (plural langues de chat)

1. Synonym of cat's tongue; small chocolate biscuit shaped like a the tongue of a cat.
   • 1935 September 21, Sophie Kerr, “Twenty Years of Dinner Parties”, in Saturday Evening Post‎^[1], volume 208, number 12, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 32:

     My grandmother would have been ashamed to have less than two kinds of rich homemade cake in the big cake box on ber pantry shelf. Usually there were three or four. And I hate to think of what she would have said had she gone out to dinner and been offered for dessert a compote of fruit and a dry little langue-de-chat.

   • 2005 January, Cynthia Rose, “Pain Couture (High-Fashion Bread)”, in Crafts‎^[2], number 192, Crafts Council, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 58:

     The fanciful range of costumes they created together begins with a spin through French costume history. Croissants and meringues make a Marie Antoinette wig; a shimmying flapper shift consists of thin langues-de-chat; oval slices of country bread form a bustle that literally trails into crumbs.

   • 2014 July [2011], Kazune Kawahara, chapter 3, in JN Productions, transl., My Love Story!!, volume 1, Viz Media, translation of 俺物語!! [Ore Monogatari!!], →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     I made some langues de chat.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃ɡ də ʃa/

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langue de chat f (plural langues de chat)

1. cat's tongue (biscuit)

• mousse du chat

• langue-de-chat (cuisine) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr