Ganache

//ɡəˈnæʃ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze. countable, uncountable

    "The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!"

  2. 2
    A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves. countable, historical, uncountable

    "M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ..."

  3. 3
    A fool countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To coat with ganache. transitive

    "to ganache the sides of a cake"

Synonyms

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garnache

Example

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"Let's eat melon sherbet and chocolate ganache cake."

Etymology

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

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