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Dessert

//dɪˈzɝt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The last course of a meal, consisting of fruit, sweet confections etc. countable, uncountable

    "I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert."

  2. 2
    a dish served as the last course of a meal wordnet
  3. 3
    A sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal. countable, uncountable

    "Trifle is a favourite dessert of the English, but rivalled by pavlova in Australia and New Zealand."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dessert, from desservir (“disserve”), from dés- (“dis-”) and servir (“serve”), thus literally meaning “removal of what has been served”. Note: It was erroneously suggested (e.g. in "Glucose syrups: Technology and Applications" (Peter Hull, 2010)) that the word is derived from the name of Benjamin Delessert, the inventor of beet sugar. However, the term predates him by at least a century.

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