Brioche

Brioche is a light but rich French bread made with eggs and butter. It is usually baked in a fluted tin with a smaller ball of dough placed on top, either as buns or as one large loaf. The crust is glazed before baking and turns a deep golden brown. The crumb is delicate and pale yellow in colour.

The famous phrase, wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette, "let them eat cake" as callous advice to starving peasants before the French Revolution was mis-translated into English. The original French, first written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions, was "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" - "let them eat brioche".

The pronunciation in French is (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) . The pronunciation in Received Pronunciation is chiefly [briɒʃ], and the pronunciation in American English is [brioʊʃ].