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short·bread (shôrt

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A cookie made of flour, sugar, and much butter or other shortening.

shortbread [ˈʃɔːtˌbrɛd]

(Cookery) a rich crumbly biscuit made from dough with a large proportion of butter

[from short (in the sense: crumbly)]

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Noun

shortbread - very rich thick butter cookie

shortbread cookie

butter cookie - cookie containing much butter

Translations

shortbread [ˈʃɔː^rtbrɛd] n → sablé m

shortbread [ˈʃɔːtˌbrɛd] n → frollino, biscotto di pasta frolla

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