pâtissoie

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French

Noun

pâtissoie f (plural pâtissoies)

  1. an eighteenth-century silken[1] or woolen[2] cloth from China.[1][2]
    • 1943, Jean Ray, La Cité de l'indicible peur, 2016 ed., Paris, Alma, →ISBN, chap. IV, p. 88
      [...] il voyait réapparaître la mesquine apothéose de la fausse beauté qui fit tout le bonheur du défunt, depuis les naïades en plâtre scrobiculé jusqu’aux pompeux bouddhas drapés de pâtissoie.
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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Dictionnaire universel de la langue françoise, P.C.V. Boiste, 1803, Paris, Desray, p. 589
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dictionnaire français, par ordre d'analogie, P.A. Lemare, 1820, Paris, Bechet ainé, p. 604