Gelee

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes. countable, uncountable

    "While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”). alt-of, alternative

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"While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth."

Etymology

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

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