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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, perfect, from Latin perfectus; see perfect.]

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From French parfait ("perfect")

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