No. 8,215 in Russian
мадлен
"Мадлен" (Madlen) is a Russian transliteration of the French name "Madeleine" and may also refer to the small, shell-shaped French sponge cake.
In a sentence
Мадлен решила испечь пирожные на выходных.
Madlen decided to bake pastries over the weekend.
Used as a proper noun to denote a person's name.
Ты пробовала мадлен, которые они продают на углу?
Have you tried the madeleines that they sell on the corner?
Referring to a type of pastry, specifically the French madeleine.
Он использовал мадлен как символ памяти в своем рассказе.
He used the madeleine as a symbol of memory in his story.
Symbolic usage referencing Proustian memory, inspired by Marcel Proust's work.
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