apricot bar

2.3

A sweet baked slice with apricot jam or fruit

noun
/ˈeɪprɪkɒt bɑr/

: barra de albaricoque

She brought a tray of homemade apricot bars to the bake sale.

Examples

These apricot bars are sweet, tangy, and perfect for dessert.
Have you tried the new apricot bars at the bakery?
I always enjoy having an apricot bar with my afternoon tea.
I made a delicious apricot bar for dessert.
I always enjoy having an apricot bar with my afternoon tea.
She brought a tray of homemade apricot bars to the bake sale.
These apricot bars are sweet, tangy, and perfect for dessert.

Synonyms

fruit bar

vsapricot bar

1 1.2

A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars

is the specific form using a single flavor preserve rather than mixed produce

Surface Forms

apricot bar singular

apricot bars plural

Morphology

apricot + bar

The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'apricot' (the fruit) + 'bar' (a slab/portion of food), so the meaning 'a bar made with apricot or apricot filling' is directly inferable. This flavor/ingredient + product pattern is common in English (e.g. lemon bar, granola bar) and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.

Etymology

Apricot bar comes from a simple baking picture: cooks spread apricot jam between layers of dough, bake it in a long pan, and cut it into small bars. So, the name now means 'a sweet, baked dessert made with apricot jam'.