madeleine

/mad"l in, mad'l ayn"/; Fr. /manndeu len"/, n., pl. madeleines /mad"l inz, mad'l aynz"/; Fr. /manndeu len"/. French Cookery.

1. a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.

2. something that triggers memories or nostalgia.

[1835-45; < F, earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the female given name; the attribution of the recipe to an 18th century cook named Madeleine Pau(l)mier is unsubstantiated]

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(as used in expressions)

L'Engle Madeleine

Madeleine L'Engle Camp

Îles de la Madeleine

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▪ church, Paris, France

in full  Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine , English  Church of St. Mary Magdalen 

 Paris church designed by Pierre-Alexandre Vignon in 1806. The Madeleine, in the form of a Roman temple surrounded by a Corinthian colonnade, reflects the taste for classical art and architecture that predominated in France during the Empire phase of the Neoclassical movement.

      Napoleon (Napoleon I), who had ordered its design and construction, originally intended the building to be a temple of glory celebrating his Grande Armée. This commemorative role, however, was assumed instead by the Arc de Triomphe (1806–08), and in 1816 the Madeleine was made a church by the restored Bourbon regime.

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