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parfait en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpɑːfeɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈpɑɹfeɪ/ (General-American)
  • /pɑɹˈfeɪ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio
  • /pɑːˈfeɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French parfait (“perfect”). Doublet of parfit, perfect, perfecto, and perfectus.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
    • Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:
  2. (countable, uncountable) An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
    • It was a parfait of puréed avocados, whipped cream, sugar and vanilla, which had been molded into a rectangle atop a peanut-butter crust and then bedecked with tiny wild strawberries. […] We were utterly transfixed, and we were quickly out of parfait. 2005 August 19, Frank Bruni, “Compass”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015:
  3. (UK, countable, uncountable) A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
parfaits Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

parfait spoon

Relateds

parfait d'amour · parfait amour

Translations (18)

mr पार्फे (an iced dessert) · tr parfe (an iced dessert) · ko 파르페 (an iced dessert) · id parfait (an iced dessert) · da parfait (an iced dessert) · yue 芭菲 (an iced dessert) · fi jäädyke (an iced dessert) · hu parfé (an iced dessert) · mk парфе́ (an iced dessert) · id parfe (an iced dessert) · ja パフェ (an iced dessert) · fi parfait (an iced dessert) · bg парфе́ (an iced dessert) · pl parfait (an iced dessert) · sv parfait (an iced dessert) · fi parfee (an iced dessert) · ru парфе́ (an iced dessert) · cmn 芭菲 (an iced dessert)