n. A small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
n. Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories (used with reference to its function in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time).
Word Usage
"The first is a crossing of a French table grape called madeleine angevin with the much frowned-upon muller-thurgau."