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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dessert made of cream, eggs, sugar, and flavoring frozen together and served in a tall glass.
  2. n. A dessert made of several layers of different flavors of ice cream or ices, variously garnished and served in a tall glass.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Perfect: used in names of preparations of frozen cream: as café parfait, vanilla parfait, which are frozen without being stirred.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Short for French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
  2. n. Short for American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream

Etymologies

  1. From French parfait ("perfect") (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, perfect, from Latin perfectus; see perfect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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