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apple tart

apple tart

3 1.0
A baked sweet pastry like a pie with sliced apples and sugar
  • noun
  • /ˈæpəl tɑrt/
translation icon : tarta de manzana
  • Every Sunday, my grandmother bakes a traditional apple tart for the whole family.
  • a warm apple tart
  • caramelized apple tart
  • apple tart with cream

Examples

  • She prefers my French apple tart with a little bit of cream on the side.

    The Turning (2020)

  • Tonight's dinner will be roast turkey and for dessert, an apple tart.

    Taking Woodstock (2009)

  • - But I want to bake you an apple tart.

    The Blue Bird (1940)

  • I made an apple tart for dessert.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The apple tart wasn't so great.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • If you stay, I'll bake you the biggest apple tart you've ever tasted.

    The Blue Bird (1940)

  • A steward brought two trays: chicken breasts in white sauce, yellow beans, and apple tarts.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • For dessert, we enjoyed a warm slice of apple tart topped with vanilla ice cream.

  • She served a delicious homemade apple tart filled with sweet spiced apples.

Synonyms

tart
vsapple tart
93 1.6

A small open pastry filled with fruit or custard

is a baked dessert with a filling of sliced fruit and sugar
flan
vsapple tart
  • UK
1 3.4

An open pastry like a tart with a sweet or savory filling

is a baked dessert that uses sliced fruit and sugar rather than savory fillings

How Sweet

cake
850 1.0
apple tart
3 1.0

Surface Forms

apple tart singular
apple tarts plural

Morphology

apple + tart

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'apple' (a fruit) with 'tart' (a baked pastry with filling), indicating a tart made with apples. This noun+noun compounding pattern is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Apple tart is named for the simple picture of sliced apple pieces laid on a flat tart pastry and baked until golden. So, the name now means 'a baked pastry dessert with apples'.