viennoiserie
English

Pain au chocolat is a type of viennoiserie.
Etymology
Borrowed from French viennoiserie, from Vienne (“Vienna”).
Noun
viennoiserie (countable and uncountable, plural viennoiseries)
- A baked product made in a similar manner to bread, but with ingredients giving it a sweeter, heavier quality closer to a pastry.
- Hyponyms: croissant, brioche, pain au chocolat, Danish pastry
- 2014, Romi Moondi, Vicarious Paris: One Woman's Candid Tale of Moving to Paris, With Insights on: Food, Nightlife, Living Like a Local, and More, Romi Moondi:
- I didn't fully appreciate the amazingness of French viennoiserie (croissants, etc.) until I found myself in Switzerland ordering a pain au chocolat.
- 2018, François-Régis Gaudry, Let's Eat France!, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 331:
- The term viennoiserie appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century, initially referring to Viennese breads and croissants introduced by the Austrian August Zang.
Further reading
viennoiserie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vjɛ.nwaz.ʁi/, /vje.nwaz.ʁi/
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → Catalan: vieneseria
- → English: viennoiserie
Further reading
- “viennoiserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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