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croquembouche.

croquembouche (French dessert made from a pile of profiteroles coated with caramel)

13 characters4 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/kʁɔ.kɑ̃.buʃ/
  1. croquembouche (French dessert made from a pile of profiteroles coated with caramel)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From croque (“crunches, crunch”, third person singular present indicative, or second person singular imperative, of croquer) + en (“in”) + bouche (“mouth”), literally “crunch-in-mouth”. The current spelling came later than the others, and was first attested in 1845.

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