Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confection made from a sugar or honey paste into which nuts are mixed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A confection made usually of chopped almonds and pistachio-nuts embedded in a sweet paste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
confection ofhoney orsugar androasted nuts , often with otheringredients .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So I should have just gotten the nougat, but the nougat was the reach flavor to the gianduja standby.
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple Tripp 2007
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So I should have just gotten the nougat, but the nougat was the reach flavor to the gianduja standby.
Archive 2007-07-01 Tripp 2007
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Very good with cream cake, and also with strawberry nougat, which is quite sweet and still fruity.
Beer and chocolate tasting. magnio 2005
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-- The confection known as nougat consists usually of a paste filled with chopped nuts.
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The filling - described as nougat - is predominantly a hazelnut paste with a little bit of cinnamon.
Chocablog Dom 2010
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Later cultural exchanges brought the treat to France, where it became "nougat," and the recipe switched from calling for ground walnuts to ground almonds.
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There's a parallel universe here: people know less about what constitutes "nougat" than they do about the far reaches of our galaxy.
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There's a parallel universe here: people know less about what constitutes "nougat" than they do about the far reaches of our galaxy.
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(in this case a bar of so called "nougat" which was really just a lump of sugar).
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Fitz said there will be fish and lamb and some almond nougat thing.
The Juniper Days – Part II, The Diary Alison Earls 2011
fbharjo commented on the word nougat
gaz to have some!
December 17, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word nougat
Fun note on apothecary.
November 28, 2017