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Toblerone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈtoʊbləɹoʊn/

Etymology

Brand name, from a blend of Tobler (“surname of one of the creators”) + Italian torrone (“form of nougat”).

Meanings

1. A Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.
   • Hen number four was another bantam, living with three or four similar birds in one of the breeding arks. An ark is a Toblerone-shaped portable chicken enclosure, with a bedding/nest area at one end and a wire-mesh run at the other. 2005, Martin Gurdon, Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, page 26:
   • The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments. 2007, Lynsey Hanley, Estates: an intimate history, page 99:
   • Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres. 2002, Richard Bangs, Ed Viesturs, Richard Bangs, adventure without end:
   • You don't have to climb every mountain, just choose one: Kilimanjaro. The volcano stands out from the Tanzanian plains like a Toblerone triangle with a bite out of the top. But the mountain is far from sweet. It is high and, after the gentle slopes lull you, hard to climb. Climbing it takes from five to eight days, but if you reach the top you'll feel as strong as a lion. 2005 April 9, “The battered face of the Sphinx”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
   • The H and N components, which Professor Oxford says are shaped like "Toblerones and mushrooms", are the ones that mutate and cause problems for the human immune system. 2000 January 9, “The killer shaped like a Toblerone”, in The Independent:
2. (slang) A length of soft sponge shaped like a triangular prism, usually printed with advertising, that can be placed over the boundary rope.

Forms

Deriveds

Toblerone tunnel

Translations (9)

de Toblerone (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · fi Toblerone (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · ja トブルローヌ (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · ja トブラローネ (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · it Toblerone (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · ru Тоблеро́н (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · yue 三角朱古力 (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · sv Toblerone (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges) · cmn 三角巧克力 (A chocolate bar having triangular wedges)