marjolaine

[ mahr-juh-leyn; French mar-zhaw-len ]

noun

, plural mar·jo·laines [mahr-j, uh, -, leynz, m, a, r, -zhaw-, len]

1. (italics) French. marjoram.
2. a long, narrow cake with straight sides, usually consisting of layers of meringue and chocolate butter-cream and containing chopped nuts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of marjolaine¹

< French; Old French majorane < Medieval Latin majorana; marjoram

Example Sentences

I think of all the white Corningware with glass lids and bright flower motifs that I inherited at different times in my life, as well as the La Marjolaine line of Corningware with the tomatoes, mushrooms and artichokes trailing along the base.

From Salon

To underline the issue of suicide, the actors — Alex Morf as Chorus, Glenn Davis as Ajax and Marjolaine Goldsmith as Ajax’s mistress, Tecmessa — played out Sophocles’s dramatization of the agonizing final moments of Ajax’s life, as the indignity of being refused the armor of his dead friend, Achilles, overwhelms him.

From Washington Post

That cathartic impulse was evident all evening, beginning with the 20-minute excerpts from Sophocles’s “Philoctetes” and “Women of Trachis” from which McDormand, Faison and Marjolaine Goldsmith and Nyasha Hatendi read.

From Washington Post

A chocolate-paved marjolaine cake and a chocolate butter cookie with ganache complete the meal.

From New York Times

It included Glacier Bay and Beausoleil oysters, oxtail consommé over foie gras, chilled lobster à la Parisienne with shaved truffles, wild hare in a sauce of its own blood, Époisses cheese smeared on bread, and a layer cake called a Marjolaine.

From The New Yorker