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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mousse
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chocolate
▪ Sometime between the lamb chops and the chocolate mousse, Maestro Domingo presented his illustrious cast.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
styling products/mousse/spray etc
▪ By Bryan at Rare Moods Add body and volume to fine hair with styling products and back-combing.
▪ Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling.
▪ Look out for two great new styling products from Sebastian, the range favoured by professionals nationwide.
▪ To create a textured separated look with movement, use about a rounded tablespoon of styling mousse, as shown. 3.
▪ To create great styles from one cut, you need versatile styling products.
▪ Whichever curling method you choose, styling products are invaluable for setting hair beautifully.
▪ You can do this by using different after shaves and mouthwashes, and putting different styling products in your hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ chocolate mousse
▪ salmon mousse
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she would bake a chocolate mousse torte.
▪ For hold and body, run mousse evenly through the hair and comb well. 3.
▪ He had even put mousse in his hair.
▪ He then slices open the fillet to add a langoustine mousse.
▪ The filo pastry shells are served cold and contain rich mousses - lemon cream, butterscotch and toffee.
▪ The same is not true for mousses, however, which usually have a higher proportion of cream.
▪ Then there's that chocolate mocha and peanut crunch mousse that manages to find its way to my nearly-full stomach.
▪ With some tuna mousse, if you're really feeling peckish.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mousse

Mousse \Mousse\ (m[=oo]s), n. [F.]

  1. (Cookery) A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

  2. Any of a variety of foods whipped to a light texture; as, a salmon mousse.

  3. A foam containing special chemicals, used for styling hair.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mousse

1892, in cookery sense, from French mousse, from Old French mousse "froth, scum," from Late Latin mulsa "mead," from Latin mulsum "honey wine, mead," from neuter of mulsus "mixed with honey," related to mel "honey" (see Melissa). Meaning "preparation for hair" is from 1977. As a verb in this sense from 1984.

Wiktionary
mousse

n. 1 An airy pudding served chilled, particularly ''chocolate mousse''. 2 A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin. 3 A styling cream used for hair. vb. To apply mousse (styling cream).

WordNet
mousse
  1. n. a light creamy dessert set with gelatin

  2. a light creamy dish made from fish or meat and set with gelatin

  3. toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling [syn: hair mousse, hair gel]

  4. v. apply a styling gel to; "she mousses her hair" [syn: gel]

Wikipedia
Moussé

Moussé (, Gallo: Móczaé) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Mousse (disambiguation)

Mousse is a form of creamy dessert typically made from egg and cream.

Mousse may also refer to:

  • Hair mousse
  • Mousse, a character from the Ranma ½ series.
  • Tire mousse, a flexible foam ring that replaces or compliments the inner tube of a tire.
  • Moussé, a commune in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine
  • Mousse T., a German DJ and record producer of Turkish origin

Not to be confused with:

  • Moose, a species of animal alternatively known as the elk

Usage examples of "mousse".

Andre cheese from the list, and then in the spirit of adventure a chipotle pesto, the international olive mix, some prosciutto, and a chicken pate with black truffle mousse to be served with cornichons and mustard.

Au milieu de ce sabbat, on le distinguait encore au haut de son pilier, comme un mousse dans le hunier.

She ate her way through a delicious meal, but the Mousse de Sole all Champagne and the Fraises Romanoff might just as well have been fish pie and bread and butter pudding for all the notice she took of them.

She had a list of one hundred desserts, alphabetized in a recipe box, beginning with almond apples, moving to date pudding, on to nut brittle mousse (frozen) and ending with Zweiback pastry cheesecake.

After getting dressed and putting my Walkman on, clipping its body to the Lycra shorts and placing the phones over my ears, a Stephen Bishop/Christopher Cross compilation tape Todd Hunter made for me, I check myself in the mirror before entering the gym and, dissatisfied, go back to my briefcase for some mousse to slick my hair back and then I use a moisturizer and, for a small blemish I notice under my lower lip, a dab of Clinique Touch‑Stick.

What would you say to hors d'oeuvres of Fimaldian mushrooms stuffed with bleu cheese, a sea-dollop salad coated with a thick dressing of my own creation (and heavily laced with Saurian brandy vinegar), sauteed breast of eldarine with baby peas and liyaka au gratinand for dessert, a whipped strawberry mousse?

These zucchini flowers stuffed with chicken mousse and black truffles aren't they exquisite, poor little Pookie, here.

Or does your princess normally leave seven servings of chocolate mousse in the kitchen when she runs away?

Summer set the tinier, then moved back to the counter to start preparations on chocolate mousse.

Everything came back: the dreams, the drinks, Minnie's chocolate mousse, the Pope, that awful moment of not-dreaming.

His jaw worked as he tried to get control but his mind was filled with the sound of laughter, flashing legs and the war in his head was one of chocolate mousse.

Blinis with caviar, we read, followed by rack of lamb or cold poached salmon, then chocolate mousse with cream.

She sank into a swamp of spooky speculation, from which she emerged with a start when a maid inquired if she wanted chocolate mousse or apple slices for dessert.

I said encouragingly, as the white chocolate mousse with raspberry coulis arrived.

Joyce said brightly, and set a bowl of dark-chocolate mousse topped with whipped cream in front of Buffy.