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▪ I. mousse, n.|muːs|
[a. Fr.; app. identical with mousse moss n.1 3.]
1. Cookery. A frothy dish made with a savoury or sweet purée or other base, stiffened with cream, gelatine, or egg whites, and freq. served chilled.
1892Encycl. Cookery (ed. Garrett) I. 366/2 Chestnut Mousse.—Mix [etc.]... To serve, dip the mould in hot water, wipe it, and turn the Mousse out on a folded napkin. Ibid. 949/2 Mousse.—Fr. for froth or foam, and applied to some forms of culinary preparations, such as Chestnut Mousse, Chocolate Mousse, Coffee Mousse, Strawberry Mousse, &c. 1899Daily News 15 July 7/5 While strawberries are still with us, the following Mousse should be tried. Ibid., A peach or apricot Mousse would be made very similarly. Ibid., These Mousses should turn out quite solid, but will never be hard on account of the cream. 1906Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxiii. 989 Parfaits, mousses, and soufflés differ from ordinary ices, inasmuch as the cream preparation is at once moulded and placed on ice. 1908Daily Chron. 22 July 7/4 A mousse is nothing more than the addition of whipped cream instead of plain cream when making ices. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 490 (heading) A mousse or soufflé. A very light frozen mixture, usually containing stiffly beaten egg whites. 1960E. David French Provincial Cooking 445 Nearly everyone knows and appreciates the old and reliable formula for a chocolate mousse—4 yolks beaten into 4 oz. of melted bitter chocolate, and the 4 whipped whites folded in. 1965L. Deighton Action Cook Bk. 119 In France a mousse is part of an ice cream. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 269/2 As entrées, main dishes for lunch, or a fine addition to a buffet, savoury mousses of puréed meat or fish, poultry, game or vegetables can be served hot or cold. 1972K. Stewart Times Cookery Bk. ii. 22 (heading) Cucumber and cream cheese mousse. Ibid., Allow several hours for mousse to chill. 1975Times 16 Apr. 12 The fruit I can use..for hot crumble or cobbler or cold in a mousse.
2. Hairdressing. A substance for setting or colouring the hair, sold as a foam or froth in a pressurized container.
[1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 100/1 Mousse, froth, foam, lather.] 1982Financial Times 15 May i. 11/3 Anybody with soft, limp hair..might like to know about a new mousse created by Michaeljohn. 1985N.Y. Times 12 May iii. 25/1 In March 1983, mousse was offered to consumers in Britain. 1985Company Dec. 60/3 (Advt.), Make a quick change from your natural 9 to 5 colour with new Shaders & Toners colour styling mousse. 1986Blactress July 10/2 Mousse will provide extra volume and glamour.
Sense 2 in Dict. becomes 3. Add: 2. A brown emulsion of sea water and oil produced by the weathering of oil spills and resistant to dispersal; also, a mass of this substance. Also chocolate mousse.
[1967Guardian 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.] 1968S. A. Berridge et al. in Jrnl. Inst. Petroleum LIV. 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. Ibid. 337/1 Various methods of preparing ‘mousse’-type emulsions were investigated. 1977Times 28 Apr. 5/6 The water-in-oil emulsion known as ‘chocolate mousse’ persists in North Sea temperatures. 1978Marine Pollution Bull. IX. 293/1 Rapid change-over from sheen oil to mousse formation. 1981Nature 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.
▪ II. mousse, v. Hairdressing.
[f. mousse n. 2.]
trans. To apply mousse to (hair); to set or colour (hair) using mousse. Hence moussed ppl. a.
1984New York 11 June 19/1 If all of America is soon to be moussed, what will the hair-care industry think of next? 1984People Weekly 10 Sept. 79/3 ‘People will try to mousse everything,’ predicts stylist Louis Licari. 1985Hair Summer 20/1 Revamp a day style simply by hair-spraying or moussing a part of your hair. 1985Washington Post 14 Oct. b2/3 He rushes up to a mirror and surveys his mucho moussed hair, most of which is now sticking straight up in the air. 1986Blactress July 10/2 Mousse each section before winding on rollers.
▪ III. mousse
obs. form of mouse n. |