tourage
French, noun/tu.ʁaʒ/
tourage is a French masculine noun meaning “the process of rolling during lamination in the production of puff pastry or croissant dough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Technique de fabrication d'une pâte feuilletée qui consiste à étaler puis replier la pâte sur elle-même et de…”.
What does tourage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe process of rolling during lamination in the production of puff pastry or croissant dough
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Technique de fabrication d'une pâte feuilletée qui consiste à étaler puis replier la pâte sur elle-même et de recommencer l'opération un grand nombre de fois.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tourage
- tourages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourage?
- /tu.ʁaʒ/
- \tu.ʁaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tourage in French?
tourage appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).