ge·la·ti

[juh-lah-tee]
noun Italian Cookery.
a rich ice cream, made with eggs and usually containing a relatively low percentage of butterfat.
Also, ge·la·to [juh-lah-toh] .


Origin:
< Italian, plural of gelato, noun use of past participle of gelare to freeze; see gelatin

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Main Entry:  gelato
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  an Italian ice cream with almost no air and thereby denser than other ice creams
Etymology:  1929-34; < It. Gelare to freeze
Usage:  pl gelatos, gelati
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Gelato is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Example sentences
DeAnna's also has desserts such as tiramisu, ricotta cheesecake and gelato.
Seeing a prominent politician walk down the street licking scoops of gelato
  from a cone could only happen in my city.
It's a warm bittersweet-chocolate cake in a pool of caramel strewn with cocoa
  nibs, and on top is a scoop of salted peanut gelato.
For dessert, don't bother with anything but a dish of vanilla gelato.
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