n. pl. pe·tits foursor pet·it fours (pĕtē fôrz) A small, frosted and decorated piece of pound cake or sponge cake. [French, from (à) petit four, (in) a relatively cool oven (small cakes and pastries being so called because they are baked at more moderate temperatures than bread and larger cakes) : petit, little; see PETIT + four, oven (from Middle French, from Old French, from Latin furnus; see gwher- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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