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.

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adjective

1. prepared or served with whipped cream.

mousseline ² American  

[moos-leen] / musˈlin /

noun

French.

1. muslin.

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mousseline British  

/ muslin /

noun

1. a fine fabric made of rayon or silk

2. a type of fine glass

3. short for mousseline sauce

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Etymology

Origin of mousseline

< French: literally, muslin

Example Sentences

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

As to her dress, I acknowledge, without any feeling of mortification, that it was of mousseline; but the secret of its making was preserved by the modiste.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence