Vocabulary
colonel
a colonel, highest commissioned officer below generals; an ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka
Noun
poutine
poutine; any of several potato-based dishes; dumpling; bread pudding, pudding; any of several pudding-like desserts; a messy situation or complicated thing; a quagmire; a fat woman
Noun
mousse
moss (the plant); bryophyte (in the broad sense); foam; mousse (dessert); a boy serving on a ship: a cabin boy
Noun
flotteur
float (any of many floating devices); coke float (scoop of cold dairy-like dessert floating in soft drink sodapop)
Noun
mignardise
A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal, usually with coffee; pretense; preciousness, affectation
Noun
vacherin
vacherin (a soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland); vacherin (a cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream)
Noun
croquembouche
croquembouche (French dessert made from a pile of profiteroles coated with caramel)
Noun
dame blanche
a type of dessert resembling the sundae; a kind of female spirit or supernatural being, reported in the region of Lorraine and Normandy
Noun
vacherin glacé
vacherin glacé (a cake-shaped dessert made of a meringue shell filled with ice cream and topped with whipped cream)
Noun
omelette norvégienne
baked Alaska (dessert consisting of ice cream encased in cake and meringue and briefly baked)
Noun
tarte tropézienne
a dessert, originating in Saint-Tropez, composed of a brioche with a creamy filling
Noun
poire belle Hélène
a dessert made from pears poached in sugar syrup and served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and crystallized violets (or, in simpler variations, sliced almonds)
Noun
desserte
side table (or the food served on it); service (of a certain area or place by a road, transit service, public institution, etc.)
Noun