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tartlet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɑːt.lət/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɑɹt.lət/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From Middle English tartelet, from Old French tartelette; equivalent to tart + -let.

Meanings

1. A small tart (pastry).
   • Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry. 1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51:
2. (derogatory, slang) A promiscuous young woman.
   • 'Be gone tartlets! Your feminine charms hold no power over me,' he said, […] 2011, A. K. Wrox, Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy Thing to End All Questy Things, Clan Destine Press, published 2011, →ISBN:
   • The only excitement I had was watching a tartlet in a teeny-weeny bikini that barely contained her truly mammoth assets light a cigarette and suck on it with puckered, painted, Lolita lips. 1992, Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2010, →ISBN:
   • She hated that a large chunk of Jerry's income supported his little tartlets instead of being directed into their household as it should have been.. 2010, Pastor Shirley, S.E.C.R.E.T.S. of the First Ladies, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, page 77:
   • "She's a whore. A tartlet. Junia, he bought her for a hundred and fifty guineas, and then had the nerve to ask me to marry him!" 2010, Jo Beverley, Emily and the Dark Angel, Signet Eclipse, published 2010, →ISBN:
   • I have yet to see a Hollywood tartlet apologize for weighing 95 pounds, or for playing dumb to stay popular, or for always being the sidekick when there's action. 2012 July 29, Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why”, in The Globe and Mail:

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