Mousse

Quick meaning: Mousse is a noun meaning An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.

Meaning

An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.

More Meanings

1. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
2. A styling cream used for hair.
3. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
4. To apply mousse (styling cream).

Example Sentences

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

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

When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.

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).

Word Forms

• mousses
• moussing
• moussed

Synonyms for mousse

Depending on context, synonyms include gel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gel, brew, turf, eelgrass, moss, foam.

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