barquette

English

Noun

barquette (plural barquettes)

  1. A kind of small sailboat.
  2. A small boat-shaped pastry shell with a sweet or savoury filling.

French

Etymology

From Middle French barquette, first attested ca. 1320 (discounting an adjective in nef barquette, 1238).

Synchronically analyzed as barque + -ette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ.kɛt/
  • (file)

Noun

barquette f (plural barquettes)

  1. A small boat
  2. punnet, small box, small tub, small tub
  3. painted comber, Serranus scriba
  4. (motoring) prototype
  5. A stretcher
  6. barquette (kind of filled pastry)

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