Etymology

dacquoise

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Today it means: A dessert cake made with layers of almond and hazelnut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream, typically served chilled with fruit. Full definition →

French dacquoise
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  1. French · borrowed fromdacquoise
  2. English todaydacquoise

From French dacquoise, feminine of dacquois (“from the French town of Dax”), the origin of the dessert.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.