praline
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
praline /ˈprɑːliːn/
▶noun a sweet substance made by boiling nuts in sugar and grinding the mixture, used especially as a filling for chocolates.
– origin C18: from Fr., named after Marshal de Plessis-Praslin, the soldier whose cook invented it.
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