parfait

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I don't think I'll bother making into bavaroise or parfait, as we were served, but I will buy it as a quick snack every now and then.

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

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  • I didn't even care that an ice-cream parfait was being served as dessert and that I might miss it—to say nothing of coffee. —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
  • Macmillan a su eviter avec un tact parfait, tout ce qui pouvait rappeler le nouveau riche. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Whether measuring or interpreting, we use one level of the polysemous symbol-parfait to cast light on another. —  Omni: November 1993
  • In the morning we enjoyed fruit parfait, coffee cake and spinach and Swiss quiche before heading off to the spa.
  • Sally Field, or the mogul who perfected the parfait-like comb-over, Donald Trump?
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  1. French, from Old French, perfect, from Latin perfectus; see perfect.

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  1. French
 

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/pɑrˈfeɪ/
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