2. Noun. A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell. ¹
3. Noun. Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Madeleine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Madeleine
Literary usage of Madeleine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"madeleine [arranging on a small table a tray with a bottle and several glasses].
... Fix the fire for me, madeleine. madeleine. I have just put on a log. ..."
2. The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas with Illustrations by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1921)
"madeleine admires the beautiful bracelet he has made for her, and she begs him
to dine. But alas! it is impossible. Today he dines with his mother. ..."
3. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"The madeleine is famed for its sacred music and orchestral performances on great
festivals and during Passion Week. The Organ, with five manuals, ..."
4. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"The broad Bue Royale leads from the madeleine to the Place de la Concorde, beyond
which, on the opposite bank of the Seme., rises the Chambre ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Of these, madeleine was a woman of great talent as an actress, and Molière's
friend, or perhaps mistress, through all the years of his wanderings. ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1909)
"But I 'm sure madeleine 's the ticket in a fashionable boarding-school. ...
madeleine asked. Miss Frelinghuysen appeared to hesitate. "Do you wish it, ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"madeleine GRAHAM.» PEOPLE used to think the novels of Paul de Kock ... This is
the pretext on which the author of " madeleine Graham " justifies one of the ..."
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