Associations to the word «Madeleine»

Wiktionary

MADELEINE, noun. A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
MADELEINE, noun. Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time).
MADELEINE, proper noun. A female given name.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats