nougat

American  

[noo-guht, noo-gah] / ˈnu gət, ˈnu gɑ /

noun

1. a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.

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nougat British  

/ ˈnʌɡət, ˈnuːɡɑː /

noun

1. a hard chewy pink or white sweet containing chopped nuts, cherries, etc

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Etymology

Origin of nougat

1820–30; < French < Provençal ≪ Vulgar Latin *nucātum, noun use of neuter of *nucātus, equivalent to Latin nuc- (stem of nux ) nut + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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nougat

“My housing tract was dark brown and light brown, and they later changed it to sort of a nougat and gray,” Newitz told Locus magazine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Toblerone, the mountain-shaped chocolate made from Swiss milk with honey and almond nougat, first went on sale in 1908 in Bern, the capital city of Switzerland.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2023

You could call all that the chewy nougat center of this film, which in many other ways obeys some of the least interesting conventions of the slasher genre.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021

Painted in toothsome nursery colors — pink, nougat, chocolate brown — they look like giant versions of the autumn squirrels foraging in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020

It was a trick he’d often perform for school groups, if someone brought him a bit of orange nougat.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff