Main Entry:

²tart

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English tarte, from Anglo-French

Date:

14th century

1: a dish baked in a pastry shell : pie : as a: a small pie or pastry shell without a top containing jelly, custard, or fruit b: a small pie made of pastry folded over a filling 2 [earlier slang, girlfriend, probably short for jam tart, rhyming slang for sweetheart] : prostitute