soufflé

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The cook's inhibitions about tackling a famously capricious recipe aside, it is the fact that people must wait for a soufflé rather than it waiting for them that causes the problem.

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  1. noun A light, fluffy baked dish made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a main dish or sweetened as a dessert.

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  • American Idol results show featuring a soul-crushing Beatles medley, they decided to trot out one of their own guilty pleasures, S Club 7's "Don't Stop Movin '," a "Billie Jean" - sampling dancefloor soufflé that was big across the pond back in 2001 but never made any impact at US radio. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Instead of a clear discussion of tweaking the spending plan we passed last spring, it became an exercise in maintaining the hot air in a budget soufflé. —  Dennis Zaki Blog - AlaskaReport
  • With their unique mineral bouquet these robust crystals would be well-served on top of your favorite ice cream or soufflé. —  Cool Hunting
  • Chef Kevin Reading features three tastes of mushroom dishes such as porcini popovers, mushroom strudel and oyster mushroom soufflé. —  metrocurean
  • Nothing comes with a trickier reputation to make than a soufflé. —  The Guardian World News
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  1. French, from past participle of souffler, to puff up, from Old French soffler, from Latin sufflāre : sub-, sub- + flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, past participle of souffler, Old French sofler, soufler, souffler, blow, puff, = Provencal sofflar, sufflar = Spanish soplar = Portuguese soprar = Italian soffiare, from Latin sufflare, blow, from sub-, under, + flare, blow, = English blow.
 

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