petit beurre

petit beurre [puh-tee bœr] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural pe·tits beurre [puh-tee bœr] /pə ti ˈbœr/. French Cookery. a small, usually oblong butter cookie. Liberaldictionary.com

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Origin of petit beurre 1905–10; French: literally, little butter Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for petit beurre Historical Examples of petit beurre

We had no bread, but we discovered some Petit-Beurre biscuits, and left him turning them over and over.

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