petit four

1. 1.

   small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake

   Broadercake

Questions about petit four

What does petit four mean?

petit four means "small (individual) frosted and ornamented cake".

Is petit four a common word?

petit four is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.