Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chilled dessert made with cream and often milk simmered with sugar and flavorings and set with gelatin, typically served with a caramel or fruit sauce.
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- noun an
Italian dessert consisting of flavouredcream set withgelatine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian : panna, cream (from Old Italian, from panno, cloth (since a layer of cream covers milk like a cloth after it rises), from Latin pannus; see pan- in Indo-European roots) + cotta, cooked; see terra cotta.]
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Italian cooked cream
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