petit beurre

[ puh-tee bœr ]

noun

, French Cooking.

, plural pe·tits beurre [p, uh, -tee , bœr].

1. a small, usually oblong butter cookie.

Word History and Origins

Origin of petit beurre¹

1905–10; < French: literally, little butter

Example Sentences

I couldn’t find Thé Brun in America, so I constructed the cake with Petit Beurre cookies.

From New York Times

They all sat down at midnight, wrapped up in their travelling coats and not at all too much tired to sip grenadine sucr�e and to crunch Petit Beurre biscuits.

From Project Gutenberg