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floating island
[f. floating ppl. a.]
1. An island that floats.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 13 The Whales, the Seas Leviathan..like so many floating Ilands concomitating us. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. xxxi. 186 There is a floating island in it, well wooded.
2. Cookery. (U.S.) A custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
1771Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 415 At dinner..we had a floating island. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. vii. (1891) 110 The marvellous floating-island. |