par・faitの英語

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɑːfeɪ/, /pɑːˈfeɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑɹfeɪ/, /pɑɹˈfeɪ/

名詞

parfait (countable and uncountable, plural parfaits)

1. A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:

     Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

2. An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
   • 2005 August 19, Frank Bruni, “Compass”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015:

     It was a parfait of puréed avocados, whipped cream, sugar and vanilla, which had been molded into a rectangle atop a peanut-butter crust and then bedecked with tiny wild strawberries. […] We were utterly transfixed, and we were quickly out of parfait.

3. (UK) A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• parfait on Wikipedia.Wikipedia