souffle
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noun
1.
a light baked dish made fluffy with beaten egg whites combined with egg yolks, white sauce, and fish, cheese, or other ingredients.
2.
a similar dish made with fruit juices, chocolate, vanilla, etc., and served as dessert.
adjective
3.
Also, souf·fléed. puffed up; made light, as by beating and cooking.
verb (used with object)
4.
to make (food) puffed up and light, as by beating and cooking, adding stiffly beaten egg whites, etc.; make resemble a soufflé: to soufflé leftover mashed potatoes.
Origin:
1805–15; < French, noun use of past participle of souffler to blow, puff < Latin sufflāre to breathe on, blow on
1805–15; < French, noun use of past participle of souffler to blow, puff < Latin sufflāre to breathe on, blow on
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World English Dictionary
souffle (ˈsuːfəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| med a blowing sound or murmur heard in auscultation | |
| [C19: from French, from souffler to blow] | |
| soufflé (ˈsuːfleɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a very light fluffy dish made with egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites combined with cheese, fish, etc |
| 2. | a similar sweet or savoury cold dish, set with gelatine |
| —adj | |
| 3. | made light and puffy, as by beating and cooking |
| [C19: from French, from souffler to blow, from Latin sufflāre] | |
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Medical Dictionary
souffle souf·fle (s&oomacr;'fəl, s&oomacr;'flə)
n.
A soft blowing sound heard on auscultation.
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Example sentences
The allure of bigger ratios has prompted manufacturers to bake this specification into a full-fledged nonsense soufflé.
Weightman here as elsewhere in the review is too anxious to press his point, and the result is a pancake instead of a soufflé.
Before the era of decoupling, you could no more make matter clump together by gravity than you could make a soufflé in a tornado.
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