vacherin

Borrowed from French vacherin, from Franco-Provençal [Term?]. The dessert was likely named for its resemblance to the round shape of vacherin cheese wheels.

vacherin (countable and uncountable, plural vacherins)

2. A soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland.
   • 2007 March 26, Caitlin Moran, The Times:

     After all, the lure of endless, sensual evil is as nothing compared to a good, spoonable Vacherin.

4. (countable, dated) A cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream.^[1]
5. (countable) Ellipsis of vacherin glacé.

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal [Term?]. The dessert was likely named for its resemblance to the round shape of vacherin cheese wheels.

• IPA^(key): /vaʃ.ʁɛ̃/

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vacherin m (plural vacherins)

1. vacherin (a soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland)
2. (dated) vacherin (a cake-shaped dessert made of an almond paste shell filled with (non-frozen) double cream and topped with whipped cream)
3. ellipsis of vacherin glacé

• → English: vacherin
• → German: Vacherin
• → Russian: вашрен (vašren)

• “vacherin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012