galleta
/ɡaˈʝeta/ · B1 · noun · f
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🍪 From French galette, a flat round cake, so a galleta is a flat cookie
French galette comes from galet, a flat pebble smoothed by water. A flat, round cookie is a galleta. Colloquially, a galleta is also a slap: a flat hand landing on a cheek.