peach Melba

American  

Also peach melba,

noun

1. a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.

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peach Melba British  

noun

1. a dessert made of halved peaches, vanilla ice cream, and Melba sauce

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Etymology

Origin of peach Melba

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

Buddha and Gabri's peach melba Wellington dessert looks and sounds delightful.

From Salon

This variation takes its cues from the classic dessert known as a peach Melba.

From Washington Post

Embrace stone fruit season with this not-so-classic peach Melba.

From New York Times

For dessert, I wanted to put those peaches to good use, so I looked to a classic peach Melba.

From New York Times

Woods also wrote that before the case began, “this judge did not know that the ‘graham’ in graham cracker referred to a type of flour: the crackers might have been named after a famous person named Graham, in the way that Peach Melba and Melba Toast were named after an opera singer,” Australia’s Nellie Melba.

From Reuters