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Mousse

//muːs// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling wordnet
  3. 3
    A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. countable, uncountable

    "ham mousse"

  4. 4
    a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin wordnet
  5. 5
    A styling cream used for hair. countable, uncountable

    "He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up."

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  1. 6
    a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream wordnet
  2. 7
    A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs. countable, uncountable

    "Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b)."

Verb
  1. 1
    To apply mousse (styling cream).

    "He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night."

  2. 2
    apply a styling gel to wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

Etymology 2

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

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