Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light, fluffy baked dish made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a main dish or sweetened as a dessert.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cookery, a delicate dish sometimes savory, as a potato soufflé, but usually sweet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.
- adjective (Ceramics) Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of color, as if blown from a bellows.
- adjective (Cookery) Filled with air by beating, and baked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
baked dish made frombeaten egg whites and various otheringredients .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from past participle of souffler, to puff up, from Old French soffler, from Latin sufflāre : sub-, sub- + flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.]
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Borrowing from French soufflé, from souffler ("to puff").
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