单词 | chocolate mousse |
释义 | > as lemmaschocolate mousse chocolate mousse n. ΚΠ 1884 N.-Y. Tribune 7 Apr. 8/4 (advt.) Miss Parloa's Last Lessons will be given this week at her School of Cookery... Soft-shell Crabs, Walnut Ice Cream, Chocolate Mousse, etc. 1920 McClure's Mag. Feb. 14/2 With the assistance of three chocolate mousses and a nut sundae, he wheedled out of her the secret of her disguise. 2006 N. Alderman Disobedience xii. 236 There was a great tureen of chocolate mousse topped with whipped cream. chocolate mousse 3. More fully chocolate mousse. A brown emulsion of sea water and oil produced by the weathering of oil spills, which is resistant to dispersal; a mass of this substance. Also: a stiff brown foam caused by the growth of bacterial colonies on sewage effluent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass > specific chocolate liquor1662 dope18.. cream1903 mousse1968 1967 Guardian 22 Apr. 3/3 No-one was able yesterday to give chapter and verse about which beaches have..had their chocolate mousse of oil and sand cleared.] 1968 S. A. Berridge et al. in Jrnl. Inst. Petroleum 54 334/1 ‘Chocolate mousse’. This term, which appears to have originated from the Torrey Canyon incident, is herein defined as [water-in-oil] emulsions of from 50 to 80 per cent water content, which have a solid or semi-solid grease-like consistency, maintain a rigid configuration that can only be changed by an applied force, and are not reverted to oil-in-water emulsions by agitation in sea water. 1981 Nature 19 Mar. 235/1 The Ixtoc 1 well released oil for 9 months into the open ocean where winds and currents dispersed the floating mousse..which had formed at the wellhead. 1995 New Scientist 1 Apr. (World Below Suppl.) 19/3 The settlement tanks at many sewerworks have been overcome by a brown foam that is so stiff cats can walk across its surface. ‘It is known in the trade as chocolate mousse,’ says Nigel Horan, a public health engineer. < as lemmas |
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