palmier

Borrowed from French palmier, ellipsis of feuille de palmier (“palm tree leaf”), the original name of this pastry.

palmier (plural palmiers)

1. A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.

   Synonym: elephant ear

   • 2007 January 30, Lily Koppel, “In a Bakery Window, Shades of Miss Havisham”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Glass cases are filled with a pastel field of pink sweet buns, glossy guava-oozing pastries and their vanilla custard cousins, crispy, heart-shaped orejas (elephant ears, or, at French bakeries, palmiers), and conchas (shells).

palmier

1. comparative form of palmy: more palmy

• Palmeri, impaler, impearl, lempira, premail, premial

Inherited from Middle French palmier. By surface analysis, palme +‎ -ier.

• IPA^(key): /pal.mje/

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• Rhymes: -je
• Homophone: palmiers
• Hyphenation: pal‧mier

palmier m (plural palmiers)

1. palm, palm tree

   Hypernyms: arbre, monocotylédone

   Hyponyms: aréquier, dattier, palmier à huile, palmier des Canaries

2. (baking) palmier (biscuit)

• → English: palmier
• → Romanian: palmier

• “palmier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “palmier” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “palmier” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

• Pamiers

• emplira

Borrowed from French palmier (“palm tree”).

palmier m (plural palmieri)

1. palm tree

• “palmier”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025