clafoutis
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French clafoutis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɑfuːˈtiː/
Noun
clafoutis (countable and uncountable, plural clafoutis)
- A French dessert made by baking fresh fruit (traditionally cherries) with a batter.
- 2014 May 19, Martha Rose Shulman, “Berry Clafoutis”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2014:
- My clafoutis are not very sweet, and I enjoy them for breakfast as well as for dessert.
French
Alternative forms
- clafouti (rare)
Etymology
Dialectal, from Old French claufir (“to hold in place with nails”), because the cherries look like nails in the cake, from Latin clavo (“nail”) figere (“to fix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla.fu.ti/
Noun
clafoutis m (plural clafoutis)
Descendants
- English: clafoutis
Further reading
- “clafoutis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- clafoutis on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr