barquetten.

1825 Hist. Paris from Earliest Period to Present Day III. 463 The Marnese boats and the barquettes employed below Montereau are of much larger dimensions.

1859 F. M. Taylor May Templeton xx. 378 Angelo had been..whiling away the time chaffing first one and then another polacca-rower on the inferiority of their gaily-painted little barquettes.

1889 Star (Guernsey) 14 Feb. 3/7 A barquette..was lying in the harbour, made fast to the quay with a warp.

2003 G. J. Blackburn Illustr. Encycl. Ships & Boats 34 A barquette is a lugsail-rigged boat, around 20' (6m) long that was once common off the French and Spanish Riviera.

1802 Boyer's Royal Dict. (ed. 20) Barquette, kind of pastry-work like a boat.]

1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 708/2 The customers gesticulating, gossiping for hours together while buying a barquette worth two sous.

1907 G. A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery ii. xi. 144 Barquettes. These are a kind of small Croustades with indented edges, made in very small, boat-shaped moulds.

1949 A. L. Simon Dict. Gastron. 22/1 (heading) Barquette... Small, oval ‘bark-like’ pastries..filled with either meat, fish, fowl or vegetables, when the Barquettes are used for Hors d'œuvre.

1991 Victoria Nov. 63 Dinner continues with..pheasant with foie gras..and pretty little fruit barquettes.

2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. It..continues with three tiers packed with buttery chocolate barquettes,..brioche with cocoa beans and lemon sugar-coated madeleines.