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

Elsewhere there were plays in transparency thanks to mousseline, chiffon and crepe-de-chine fabrics alongside see-through stockings.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 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

The fowl is served over the lightest carrot mousseline, augmented by fall huckleberries and braised radish.

From Washington Times • Oct. 29, 2016

Here is the palm-size tart of smoked sturgeon and sauerkraut under a dandelion-colored mousseline with a gleaming black eye of caviar.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

At this moment my wife appeared, looking particularly charming in a mousseline de soie aux fines herbes—anglicé, a sprigged muslin.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 26, 1917 by Various