shortbread
noun
short·bread
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Definition of shortbread
: a thick cookie made of flour, sugar, and a large amount of shortening
Examples of shortbread in a Sentence
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Goldsmith’s featured desserts included butterscotch budino with Scottish shortbread or summer berry tarte with pickled peaches and creme fraiche sherbet. — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, "Trouble sorting out 250 Miami Spice options? Try these 9 restaurants," 1 Aug. 2019 A few minutes later, Genea eats Lorna Doone shortbread cookies and sips ginger ale through a straw. — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, "4 addresses in 4 months: This is what poverty looks like for this Cincinnati family," 10 July 2019 The homemade cookies are like a salute to Ambassador Orfila’s dual Argentine-American success stories: alfajores (South American shortbread sandwiches with dulce de leche) and peanut butter chocolate chip. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Orfila tasting room brings the flavors of wine country to downtown Oceanside," 27 June 2019 At iPierogi, located in the Food Building, south wall Tipsy Pecan Tart: Pecan pie infused with Dubliner Irish Whiskey and baked in a buttery shortbread shell. — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, "Minnesota State Fair’s new foods include grits, lamb chops, duck wings and lots on a stick," 18 June 2019 Continue with another one-third of the ice cream, the remaining strawberries and shortbread, and then top with the last of the ice cream. — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Homemade strawberry shortcake ice cream a magical summer treat," 13 June 2018 Wifey, last summer's pop-up gallery-café by Simone Shubuck, makes a reappearance, slinging ceramics, zines, Leaves and Flowers tea, and treats (walnut shortbread, mini ham sandwiches) by pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz. — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, "Understory Is Bringing Plants, Natural Wine, and Science-Fair Enthusiasm to Brooklyn This Weekend," 23 Apr. 2018 Miglore got pretty tired of sugar by the end — except for chocolate queen Alice Medrich’s Nibby Buckwheat Butter Cookies with cacao nibs and buckwheat flour, an intriguing and not-too-sweet shortbread. — Rebekah Denn, The Seattle Times, "Food52.com writer Kristen Miglore’s book ‘Genius Desserts’ includes several sweet Seattle specialties," 27 Nov. 2018 The breakfast menu includes donuts, shortbread, banana bread made with rice flour or Cream of Wheat, fried Puff Puff balls (that also can be eaten as an appetizer or snack), and sardine patties. — Joyce Smith, kansascity, "Want to try Jollof rice and fufu? Check out KC's new African restaurant | The Kansas City Star," 7 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shortbread.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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shortbread
noun
English Language Learners Definition of shortbread
: a thick cookie made of flour, sugar, and a lot of butter or other shortening
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