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religieuse

religieuse

9.9
A French pastry of two stacked cream puffs filled with cream and covered in icing
  • noun
  • /rəˈliːʒəs/
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  • At the bakery, the religieuse caught my eye with its beautiful chocolate icing and creamy filling.

Examples

  • Quite apart from sharing in the ambivalent status as Buddhist religieuses, the nuns assume the ambiguous position associated with Sri Lankan women in general.

    Academic text (1997)

  • In the former, the religieuse engages in ecstatic states involving a loss of bodily and mental control, which is considered unseemly in Theravada Buddhism, while in the latter, she attempts to cultivate total control of body and mind.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The religieuse is a popular French pastry made of two cream puffs stacked on top of each other.

  • She ordered a religieuse for dessert, enjoying the rich cream and sweet icing on top.

Synonyms

French pastry
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A sweet baked treat from France often filled with cream or jam

is a single specific dessert made from two stacked cream puffs with icing

Surface Forms

religieuse singular
religieuses plural

Etymology

Religieuse is the French word for 'nun' and is related to the English word religious. The pastry was named this because the two stacked cream puffs look a little like a small figure in a nun's clothes, so the shape helps explain the name.