dessert
Definitions of dessert
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a dish served as the last course of a mealtypes:omelette norvégiènecake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an ovencharlottea mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custardcompotedessert of stewed or baked fruitboulette de pâtedessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastrytarteopen pastry filled with fruit or custarddessert glacéany of various desserts prepared by freezingfromage frais sucrédessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennetmoussea rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy creamsabayonsweetened cream beaten with wine or liquordiplomatea cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolateglacea frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)sucette glacéeice cream or water ice on a small wooden stickplum-puddinga rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cakebavarois au chocolatsweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggstype of:platpart of a meal served at one time
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any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamedtypes:plum-puddinga rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cakebavarois au chocolatsweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs
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