brioche

Borrowed from French brioche.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbriːɒʃ/, /briːˈɒʃ/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

brioche (countable and uncountable, plural brioches)

1. (countable and uncountable) A type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin.

   Hypernym: viennoiserie

   Coordinate terms: croissant, pain au chocolat, Danish pastry

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     French brioche dough is especially rich in butter and eggs. It's often retarded […] for 6–18 hours to stiffen it, then rolled out and briefly rested.

   • 2017, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books, →ISBN, page 304:

     She sat him at the table in the saloon, then unobtrusively she made him tea and brought him slices of brioche spread with lock keeper’s honey.

2. (countable) A knitted cushion for the feet.

• bruffin

• brioche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French brioche.

• IPA^(key): /briˈjɔʃ/

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• Hyphenation: bri‧o‧che

brioche f or m (plural brioches)

1. brioche

   Synonym: melkbrood

From Old French brier (“to break”) +‎ -oche; compare French broyer.

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.jɔʃ/

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brioche f (plural brioches)

1. (baking, cooking) brioche (type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Attributed to Marie Antoinette:

     Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.

     Let them eat cake.

2. (figuratively) gaffe, blunder

   Synonyms: gaucherie, bévue, boulette

3. (informal) paunch, belly

   Synonym: bide

• avoir une brioche au four
• brioché

• “brioche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• brioche on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from French brioche, from Old French brier (“to break”).

• IPA^(key): /briˈɔʃ/^*

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

brioche f (invariable)

1. a croissant, Danish pastry, or other sweet bun

   Synonyms: cornetto, croissant

• cornetto m

• borchie, boriche, chiorbe

Borrowed from French brioche.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: bri‧o‧che

brioche m (plural brioches)

1. (cooking) brioche (type of bun)

Borrowed from French brioche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾjot͡ʃe/ [ˈbɾjo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: brio‧che

brioche m (plural brioches)

1. brioche (type of bun)

• “brioche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024