tuile

From French tuile (“tile”).

• IPA^(key): /twiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: tweel, tuille

tuile (plural tuiles)

1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes
   • 2009, January 28, “Elaine Sciolino”, in With Cowbells and Oxtails, Culinary Olympics Begin‎:

     Finally, there was a grilled rib of beef in an herb and pistachio crust that sat on […] a cylindrical garnish of layered sweet potato and red pepper purée, pearls of glazed garlic and a thin Parmesan tuile.

• utile

Metathesis of Old French tiule, from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tégule, a borrowing. Compare Italian tegola. Compare also Middle French teille, the Champenois form inherited from Vulgar Latin *tegla.

• IPA^(key): /tɥil/

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tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. tile
2. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune

   Synonyms: accident, imprévu

   Il m’est arrivé une tuile. ― Something bad happened to me.

3. (cooking) tuile (thin cookie)

tuile

1. first-person singular present indicative of tuiler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tuiler
3. second-person singular imperative of tuiler

• “tuile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• utile

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪlʲə/

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

1. verbal noun of tuil
2. flood, flow

• "tuile" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “tuile” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tuile” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin tēgula.

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. (Jersey) tile

tuile

1. genitive singular of tuil