Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture of chopped and boiled chestnuts, maraschino cherries, candied fruits, and liqueur or rum, used as a sauce or in puddings, ice cream, or pies.
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- noun a rich frozen pudding made of chopped chestnuts and maraschino cherries and candied fruits and liqueur or rum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nesselrode, though old and bent and shrunk in stature, seemed stronger than his young master.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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"Policy of the deepest character, and worthy of Talleyrand, Metternich or Nesselrode, if we are to rely on the eloquent speech of Lamoricière in the Chamber, the other day."
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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She ate a Nesselrode pudding while I enjoyed coffee and a cigar, to the extent that I forgot to drink the one and allowed the other to go out after a puff or two.
Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick
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Nesselrode, to whom M. Sosthenes de la Rochefoucauld briefly explained its object; he spoke of the wishes of the meeting and of the manifest desire of Paris and of France.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Nesselrode, Count, leaves Russian foreign affairs in charge of
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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I've ordered Nesselrode pudding and French cakes from the
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester
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These are people to whom music is as much a rarity as Nesselrode to a newsboy.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914
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Nesselrode, formed the basis for Anglo-Russian intervention in the East.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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We had luncheon in the Della Robbia room at the Vanderbilt and I was digging the marrons out of a Nesselrode when, presto, it suddenly came over me that the baroness was right and that _I could never marry a foreigner_.
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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Yet it was one of life's biggest moments, the Great Divide of a whole career -- and I went on eating Nesselrode and
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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