SOUFFLE

Souffle

A soufflé is a lightly baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert. The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means "to blow up" or more loosely "puff up"—an apt description of what happens to this combination of custard and egg whites.

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souffle

Noun

  1. (dish made with eggs)
  2. A murmuring or blowing sound.
    the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus


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