dessert
[dih-zurt]
- cake, pie, fruit, pudding, ice cream, etc., served as the final course of a meal.
- British. a serving of fresh fruit after the main course of a meal.
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Origin of dessert
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Contemporary Examples
If liquor and dessert are equally essential to you enjoying the holiday, at least choose your libation wisely.
Dessert is a slice of melt-in-your-mouth treacle tart with a dollop of perfectly tart clotted cream.
“No thanks,” I said when my mother offered me dessert after dinner.
And the latest hot trend in dessert has proven to be something of a backlash to cupcakes.
In other words, it is candy, or the meal formerly known as dessert.
Historical Examples
The sauce to use depends on the dessert that it is to accompany.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Other sauces, however, may be used with this dessert if desired.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The dessert was on the table before Clarence had done with the mammoth.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
"Mendiants" are raisins and nuts, the nearest to dessert that at this season you could get at Garniers.
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit
Pierre did not speak out until they were partaking of dessert.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
dessert
- the sweet, usually last course of a meal
- mainly British (esp formerly) fruit, dates, nuts, etc, served at the end of a meal
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Word Origin
C17: from French, from desservir to clear a table, from des- dis- 1 + servir to serve
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Word Origin and History for dessert
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