Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confection, especially ice cream, containing a variety of chopped and usually candied fruits.
- noun A flavoring simulating the flavor of many fruits.
- adjective Having a combination of fruit flavors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A confection flavored with or containing different kinds of fruit; specifically, ice-cream so made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A variety of
ice cream that contains choppedcandied fruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ice cream containing chopped candied fruits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But something went seriously wrong along the way, as government funding dried up, exacerbated by Italy's economic crisis, and corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola have jumped in as white or in Coke's case tutti-frutti knights.
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One thing's for sure, X thinks, staring out the window of the taxi as the city melts past in rain-smeared tutti-frutti neon, one thing's for sure: this is either a dream, or it isn't.
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Of course, she looks about as period as Carmen Miranda in full tutti-frutti.
100 Mysteries: Holmes is scornful of a hot dame – The Bleat. 2009
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Lychee and mangoes -- in fact, a bit tutti-frutti, but in a fun way.
Prosecco Index 2009
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Lychee and mangoes -- in fact, a bit tutti-frutti, but in a fun way.
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And to top it all off,? tutti-frutti? macaroons: a typical French almond sweet reinterpreted with spring fruits in honour of the Cartier jewelry house?
Diary of a Spring Night in Rome by Cartier with Monica Bellucci 2007
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Carmen MirandaSamba singer, known as “the lady in the tutti-frutti hat”
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We disagree about this just about every year and, once again, Dottie found it sober, relaxed, elegant and wise, while John found it somewhat clumsy, with tutti-frutti overtones.
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Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.
Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism." Ann Althouse 2008
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Rio's Museum of Modern Art (MAM) has opened a major retrospective, "Carmen Miranda Forever" (through Jan. 22), with clips from her Hollywood hits and mounds of eyepopping bijouterie, sequined stage gowns and her patented tutti-frutti turbans.
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