sand cookie
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a calque of French sablé (“shortbread”) from sable (“sand”), because of the texture of the crumbs; cf. also Norwegian sandkake.
Noun
[edit]sand cookie (plural sand cookies)
- (US) Name given to various types of shortbread. [from late 19th c.]
- 1945, Adrian Wilson, letter dated 31 March, 1945, in Joyce Lancaster Wilson (ed.), Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II: Selected Letters, Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, p. 132,[3]
- Some of the wives poured and served up civilized cookies such as I haven’t had for months. ([Your] sand cookies are out of this world, therefore excluded.)
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved[4], New York: Knopf, page 121:
- her breath sugary from fingerfuls of molasses or sand-cookie crumbs
- 1945, Adrian Wilson, letter dated 31 March, 1945, in Joyce Lancaster Wilson (ed.), Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II: Selected Letters, Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, p. 132,[3]
- (US) Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida.[1][2]
- Synonym: sand dollar
- (US) A mass of sand shaped to resemble a cookie by a child playing, similar to a mud pie.
- 1959, Frances R. Horwich, chapter 11, in The Magic of Bringing Up Your Child[5], New York: McGraw-Hill, page 250:
- A boy and a girl were playing in a large sandbox near my window. The little girl, who was singing, was very busy making sand cookies.
- 2000, Barbara Rowley, chapter 6, in Baby Days[6], New York: Hyperion, page 197:
- Make sand cookies at the beach. All you need is a set of plastic cookie cutters and presses. These can provide hours of amusement at the beach for toddlers […]