0 a baked dessert made from flour, eggs, butter, sugar, etc. -- gâteau [ masculine ]
1 a mixture of ground meats or vegetables, fried or baked in the shape of a circle -- galette [ feminine ]
crab cakes galettes de crabe
2 a food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar etc -- gâteau
3 a piece of other food pressed into shape -- croquette, galette d’avoine
fishcakes
oatcakes.
4 a flattened hard mass -- savonnette
a cake of soap.
5 to cover in the form of a dried mass -- former une croûte
His shoes were caked with mud.
