tartlet

noun

tart·​let ˈtärt-lət How to pronounce tartlet (audio)
: a small tart

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Veyrat will be on hand in between preparing dishes like his fine lobster tartlet topped with a fragrant meadowsweet emulsion and wild flowers. Camille Knight, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025 Here are the local restaurants and bars offering special menus and discounts for Restaurant Week: Dragon Beaux: The restaurant’s $60 signature meal includes chili wonton, honey peper wagyu beef and a Portuguese egg tartlet. Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025 At refined but laid-back Mérito, in the colorful Barranco neighborhood towering over the Pacific, Venezuelan chef Juan Luis Martínez serves dishes like elegant crab-coconut tartlets and raw scallop crudos flavored by Peru’s iconic ají amarillo chile, on an ever-changing seasonal menu. Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024 Of the three tasting menus, the Earth and Sea option includes wide-ranging small-bite flavor sensations like cockle and plankton meringue, tuna belly and caviar tartlet, cannelloni with lobster and foie gras, and sole à la meunière with a champagne emulsion. John Oseid, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tartlet 

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tartlet was in the 14th century

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“Tartlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tartlet. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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