Souffle

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Souffl'e \Souf`fl['e]"\, a. [F., fr. souffl['e], p. p. of
     souffler to puff.]
     1. (Ceramics) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of
        color, as if blown from a bellows.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  


     2. (Cookery) Often

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Souffle \Souf"fle\, n. [F.] (Med.)
     A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard
     over the pregnant uterus.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Souffl'e \Souf"fl['e]\, n. [F., fr. souffl['e], p. p. of
     souffler to puff.] (Cookery)
     A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs,
     milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till
     very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.
     [1913 Webster] Soufflee

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  souffle
       n : light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites
           mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "souffle":
     airy, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, boiled eggs,
     breakers, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon,
     coddled eggs, collar, deviled eggs, downy, dropped eggs, ebullient,
     effervescent, eggs, ethereal, feathery, fizzy, fluffy, foam, foamy,
     fried eggs, froth, frothy, gossamery, head, imponderous, lather,
     leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, meringue, mousse,
     offscum, omelet, poached eggs, puff, puffed, scrambled eggs, scud,
     scum, sea foam, shirred eggs, soapsuds, souffleed, sparkling,
     spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, spumescent, stinging,
     stuffed eggs, suds, surf, unheavy, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory,
     vesicular, volatile, weightless, whipped, white water, yeasty