odd word

I had never heard this word as anything other than a name and even that only rarely. The first definition isn't all that interesting (to me), but the second is fantastic. I can't wait to use this word.

mad·e·leine
1. a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
2. something that triggers memories or nostalgia: in allusion to a nostalgic passage in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

One more day of school!