mousseline
1 Americannoun
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Also called Chantilly sauce. Also called Chantilly. hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.
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any prepared dish made light and fluffy or airy, as by the mixing in of whipped cream or beaten egg whites.
adjective
noun
noun
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a fine fabric made of rayon or silk
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a type of fine glass
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short for mousseline sauce
Etymology
Origin of mousseline
< French: literally, muslin
Example Sentences
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Far fewer restaurants are offering snacks of grilled mussels draped with velvety choron sauce, or starters of poached asparagus with sauce mousseline, items that have the ring of the familiar but are executed with flair.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
Madeleines are not Bresse-born pastry chef François Perret's madeleine de Proust; that honor goes to his grandmother's mousseline cake or his father's crème anglaise.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2021
Bedded on potato mousseline, the bird’s breast is roasted, the hindquarter braised and the velvety brown sauce owes its nutty notes to vin jaune, a pungent, sherry-like yellow wine from the Jura region of France.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2017
Especially when Giambattista Valli situated his show of high/low ball gowns, minidresses cut to the thigh in front and streaming trains of mousseline and silk faille behind, in the Archives Nationales.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
It was of mousseline de soie, trimmed with English point.
From A Royal Prisoner by Souvestre, Pierre
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