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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope