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mousseline

1 American  
[moos-leen] / musˈlin /

noun

  1. Also called Chantilly sauce.  Also called Chantilly.  hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

  2. any prepared dish made light and fluffy or airy, as by the mixing in of whipped cream or beaten egg whites.


adjective

  1. prepared or served with whipped cream.

mousseline 2 American  
[moos-leen] / musˈlin /

noun

French.
  1. muslin.


mousseline British  
/ muslin /

noun

  1. a fine fabric made of rayon or silk

  2. a type of fine glass

  3. short for mousseline sauce

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of mousseline

< French: literally, muslin

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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

On the dinner menu, you’ll find frites, Parisian gnocchi, asparagus with sauce mousseline, roast chicken and a chubby pork chop.

From Seattle Times Jun. 20, 2019

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

Berthes are still worn, forming a point in front, only varying in the disposition of the ornaments, interspersed with small ribbons or lace and mousseline.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

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