French parfait

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Noun

French parfait (countable and uncountable, plural French parfaits)

  1. A frozen custard made with cream, and usually with a fruit puree.
    • 1997, Ed Herring, “The Last Living Poet in America”, in Pruning to Shape: Poems […], San Franscisco, Calif.: Robert D. Reed Publishers, →ISBN, part III (Outside the Garden), canto I, page 122:
      French parfait suggests an air of sophistication, desirable.
    • 2015, Olivia Ercoli, Ros Belford, Roberta Mitchell, et al., “Where to Eat and Drink”, in Rome (Eyewitness Travel), London: Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 307, column 3:
      Types vary from the classic crema and frutta to grattachecca (water ice), from semifreddo (a half-frozen sponge pudding, similar to French parfait in consistency) to granita (ice shavings flavoured with fruit syrups).

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