tompouce

plural tompouces · alternative tompoes

1. countableuncountableA pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.

   Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces?

   2023 June 23, “DutchNews podcast: The Megabrothel Roadblock Edition”, in DutchNews.nl, Amsterdam: Dutch News BV, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2023

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   Because their royal dynasty is the House of Orange, locals don’t paint the town red, but orange. They also dress themselves and often their pets in orange, paint their faces orange and wear orange wigs; even tompouce – the popular local, cream-filled pastries – get orange icing on the day.

   2017 January 23, Pat Richardson, “12 bucket list cruise holidays (one for each month of the year)”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2017

   Donyell Malen puts the icing on the tompouce, darting away up the left and firing a fabulous finish past Florin Nita as the Dutch go dancing into the last eight.

   2024 July 2, Harry Latham-Coyle, “Romania v Netherlands LIVE: Euro 2024 team news, build up and updates from Munich”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2026