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Dessert

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

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Ambrosia 76% connected

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

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Blancmange 76% connected

A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened a…

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Charlotte 76% connected

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.

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Compote 76% connected

A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.

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Dumpling 76% connected

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as,…

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Junket 76% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Pud 76% connected

Same as Pood.

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Pudding 76% connected

A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

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Sillabub 76% connected

A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.

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Syllabub 76% connected

Same as Syllabub.

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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Sweet 92% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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