berlingot

Etymology

From French berlingot

Noun

berlingot (plural berlingots)

1. A hard candy made from caramel, usually in pyramidal form.

Anagrams

• rebolting

Etymology

Originally berlinguaux (“kind of pastry”), most probably from Italian berlingozzo (“kind of pastry”), itself from berlingo, a borrowing from Old French brelenc: brelan in modern French.

Noun

berlingot m (plural berlingots)

1. berlingot.

Further reading

• “berlingot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).