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- She made a fabulous dessert with alternate layers of chocolate and cream .
- A full three-course meal - appetizer , main course and dessert - only cost about $25.
- Would you like peaches and cream for dessert?
- The menu described the dessert as 'a medley of exotic fruits '.
- I'm afraid my cooking skills don't run to fancy cakes and desserts.
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Port or a fruit-forward cabernet can match a rich, custardy chocolate dessert .
The entrees of fresh seafood and decadent dessert s left us, quite simply, marveling.
This soft and sweet dessert is the right ending for this light meal.
Mention this ubiquitous dessert , whose heyday was the ’80s and ’90s but is still going strong, and plenty of people will roll their eyes.
A dessert is always welcome, especially this simple, one-layer snacking cake.
The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert .
It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.
If liquor and dessert are equally essential to you enjoying the holiday, at least choose your libation wisely.
Dessert is a slice of melt-in-your-mouth treacle tart with a dollop of perfectly tart clotted cream.
“Oh God, that was so much fun,” Sheehy says, wedging a cookie between two heaping scoops of ice cream— dessert .
They 'ung 'im in the lamp chains right hover the dinin' table, and then finished the dessert .
When I came to serve the dessert Sally was watching me with her eagle eye and her mouth watering.
Between the pastry and the dessert , have salad and cheese placed before each guest.
Coffee follows the dessert , and when this enters, if your guests are gentlemen only, your duty is at an end.
She had submitted to giving up the salmon, but the devil himself should not cheat her out of her dessert .
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Served as the last course of a meal, a dessert is often sweet, like cake or pie. If you have a sweet tooth, you may wish it were the only course of the meal.
The word dessert originates from an interesting French word, desservir, which actually means "to clear the table." After the dinner dishes are removed, the host brings out the dessert. These days, desserts don't always have to be a sweet course, but can instead be a savory or a cheese course. Other offbeat treats include Vidalia onion ice cream and radish pie.
- noun a dish served as the last course of a meal synonyms: afters , sweet see more see less types: show 51 types... hide 51 types... ambrosia a dessert made of various fruits and often topped with shredded coconut (sometimes includes marshmallows) baked Alaska cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven blancmange sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded charlotte a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard compote , fruit compote dessert of stewed or baked fruit dumpling dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry flan open pastry filled with fruit or custard frozen dessert any of various desserts prepared by freezing junket dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet mousse a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream pavlova a dessert consisting of a meringue base or cup filled with fruit and whipped cream peach melba ice cream and peaches with a liqueur whip a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit pudding any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed pud , pudding (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) sillabub , syllabub sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor tiramisu an Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked with coffee and brandy or liqueur layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with grated chocolate sabayon , zabaglione light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled mold , mould a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold prune whip dessert made of prune puree and whipped cream trifle a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate charlotte russe lady fingers enclosing Bavarian cream apple dumpling apples wrapped in pastry and baked frappe , ice a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) ice cream , icecream frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring ice-cream cone ice cream in a crisp conical wafer sherbert , sherbet a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin ice lolly , lollipop , lolly , popsicle ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick ice milk similar to ice cream but made of milk frozen yogurt a soft frozen dessert of sweetened flavored yogurt snowball ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup snowball ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce parfait layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream ice-cream sundae , sundae ice cream served with a topping split a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts frozen pudding a chilled dessert consisting of a mixture of custard and nuts and (sometimes) liquor frozen custard , soft ice cream dessert resembling ice cream but with a boiled custard base flummery a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal chocolate mousse dessert mousse made with chocolate Christmas pudding , plum pudding a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake steamed pudding a pudding cooked by steaming duff , plum duff a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron vanilla pudding sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs chocolate pudding sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs brown Betty baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs Nesselrode , Nesselrode pudding a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum pease pudding a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg tapioca pudding sweet pudding thickened with tapioca roly-poly , roly-poly pudding pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed suet pudding a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled ice-cream cake , icebox cake ice cream molded to look like a cake type of: course part of a meal served at one time
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Definition of dessert noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- What's for dessert ?
- a rich chocolate dessert
- a dessert wine
- (British English) the dessert trolley (= a table on wheels from which you choose your dessert in a restaurant)
- His companions desert him as he dies.
- Summer pudding has long been a favourite English dessert.
- eat (lunch/dinner)/dine/meet at/in a restaurant
- go (out)/take somebody (out) for lunch/dinner/a meal
- have a meal with somebody
- make/have a reservation (in/under the name of Yamada)
- reserve/ (especially British English) book a table for six
- ask for/request a table for two/a table by the window
- wait to be seated
- show somebody to their table
- sit in the corner/by the window/at the bar/at the counter
- hand somebody/give somebody the menu/wine list
- open/read/study/peruse the menu
- the restaurant has a three-course set menu/a children’s menu/an extensive wine list
- taste/sample/try the wine
- the waiter takes your order
- order/choose/have the soup of the day/one of the specials/the house (British English) speciality/ (especially North American English) specialty
- serve/finish the first course/the starter/the main course/dessert/coffee
- complain about the food/the service/your meal
- enjoy your meal
- pay/ask for (especially British English) the bill/ (North American English) the check
- pay for/treat somebody to dinner/lunch/the meal
- service is (not) included
- give somebody/leave (somebody) a tip
- The waiter asked us if we'd like to order a dessert.
- This chestnut pudding is a rich dessert with a festive flavour.
- We finished off with a dessert of honey and nuts.
- We had mousse for dessert.
- for dessert
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des•sert
A desert /'dezət/ is a large area of land where there is very little water or rain, no trees, and very few plants.
When people or animals desert /dɪ'zɜːt/ a place, they all leave it.
If you desert someone, you leave them and no longer help or support them.
Dessert /dɪ'zɜːt/ is sweet food served at the end of a meal.
Desserts and sweet dishes
- The dessert menu, please → قائِمَةُ الـحَلْوى مِنْ فَضْلِكَ → Dezertní lístek, prosím → Dessertmenuen, tak → Die Dessertkarte, bitte → Τον κατάλογο με τα επιδόρπια, παρακαλώ → La carta de postres, por favor → Jälkiruokalista, kiitos → La carte des desserts, s'il vous plaît → Molim vas, jelovnik slastica → Il menu dei dolci, per favore → デザートのメニューをください → 후식 메뉴 주세요 → Het dessertmenu alstublieft → Dessertmenyen, takk → Poproszę kartę z deserami → O cardápio de sobremesas, por favor → Принесите десертное меню, пожалуйста → Dessertmenyn, tack → ขอรายการของหวาน → Tatlı menüsü lütfen → Làm ơn cho xem thực đơn tráng miệng → 请给我甜点菜单
- We'd like dessert (US) We'd like a dessert (UK) → نُريدُ طَبْقَ الـحُلْوِ → Dáme si, prosím, dezert → Vi vil gerne have en dessert → Wir hätten gerne ein Dessert → Θα θέλαμε επιδόρπιο → Queremos postre → Ottaisimme jälkiruoan → Nous voudrions un dessert → Željeli bismo desert → Vorremmo un dolce → 私たちはデザートをいただきます → 후식을 주세요 → We willen graag een dessert → Vi vil gjerne ha dessert → Chcielibyśmy zamówić deser → Nós queríamos uma sobremesa → Мы бы хотели десерт → Vi vill gärna ha dessert → เราอยากได้ของหวาน → Tatlı rica ediyoruz → Chúng tôi muốn ăn tráng miệng → 我要一份甜点
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The meaning of DESSERT is a usually sweet course or dish (as of pastry or ice cream) usually served at the end of a meal. How to use dessert
sweet food eaten at the end of a meal: [ U ] He had apple pie with ice cream for dessert.
Dessert definition, cake, pie, fruit, pudding, ice cream, etc., served as the final course of a meal. See more.
Definition of 'dessert' ; a usually sweet course, as of pie, cake, or ice cream, served at the end of a meal · British. uncooked ; cake, pie, fruit, pudding, ice
Served as the last course of a meal, a dessert is often sweet, like cake or pie. If you have a sweet tooth, you may wish it were the only course of the meal.
Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur
dessert meaning, definition, what is dessert: sweet food served after the main part of...: Learn more.
dessert · What's for dessert? · a rich chocolate dessert · a dessert wine · (British English) the dessert trolley (= a table on wheels from which you choose your
dessert · 1. the sweet course in a meal; pudding. We had ice-cream for dessert. · 2. fruits, sweets etc served at the end of dinner.
Dessert definition: A usually sweet course or dish, as of fruit, ice cream, or pastry, served at the end of a meal.