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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various chilled desserts made with flavored whipped cream, gelatin, and eggs: chocolate mousse.
  2. n. A molded dish containing meat, fish, or shellfish combined with whipped cream and gelatin.
  3. n. An aerosol foam used to control and style the hair.
  4. v. To apply a styling foam to (the hair).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In cookery, a whipped cream, sweetened and variously flavored, with or without eggs, and frozen without stirring.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
  2. n. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
  3. n. A styling cream used for hair.
  4. v. To apply mousse (styling cream).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Cookery) A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.
  2. n. Any of a variety of foods whipped to a light texture.
  3. n. A foam containing special chemicals, used for styling hair.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream
  2. n. toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling
  3. v. apply a styling gel to
  4. n. a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin

Etymologies

  1. French mousse ("foam, froth"), from Old French mosse ("moss"), from Frankish or Old Dutch mosa ("moss"), from Proto-Germanic *musan (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, foam, mousse, from Old French, moss, foam, partly of Germanic origin and partly from Latin mulsa, hydromel, from feminine of mulsus, honey-sweet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. toiletry
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  1. buttercream
  2. custard
  3. mascarpone
  4. ice cream
  5. nougat
  1. compote
  2. marsh mallow
  3. cheesecake
  4. éclair
  5. blueberry
  1. stroganoff
  2. casserole
  3. pasta
  4. milkshake
  5. flan
  1. brownie
  2. chowder
  3. risotto
  4. pudding
  5. caramel
  1. meringue
  2. peanut
  3. mayonnaise
  4. croissant
  5. muffin

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  2. Chartreuse
  3. Duce
  4. Luce
  5. Seuss
  6. Spruce
  7. Zeus
  8. abstruse
  9. abuse
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  3. caboose
  4. chartreuse
  5. coos
  6. deduce
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  9. disabuse
  1. disuse
  2. duce
  3. excuse
  4. goose
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  6. induce
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  8. juice
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  4. nous
  5. obtuse
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  7. produce
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  7. spruce
  8. truce
  9. use
  1. yous

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  1. fish mousse
  1. chicken mousse
  1. chocolate mousse
  1. unmold
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