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dacquoise

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dac⋅quoise

  [Fr. da-kwaz]
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–noun
a dessert consisting of baked layers of nut-flavored meringue with a cream filling, sometimes with the addition of fruit, served chilled.
Origin:
< F, fem. of dacquois pertaining to Dax
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dac·quoise   (dā-kwŏz')   
n.  

  1. A cake made with layers of nut meringue and whipped cream or buttercream.

  2. One of the layers of meringue used in this cake.


[French, from feminine of dacquois, of Dax, a town of southwest France.]
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