Belgium

couque

Meaning

a sweet bake, the catch-all name for pastries

Elsewhere

viennoiserie

Explanation

France has no single word to match it. A couque au chocolat is a pain au chocolat and a couque de Dinant is a hard honey biscuit, so viennoiserie is the nearest French catch-all, and even that leaves out the biscuit.

Example

Je passe à la boulangerie, tu veux une couque ?

I'm popping to the bakery, do you want a pastry?

Origin

From the Dutch koek, a biscuit, a relative of the English cookie and cake.

Where

Belgiumnorthern France

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