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ganache

/ɡəˈnæʃ/

ganache noun: a rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

ganache: a rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze
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Noun

ganache (countable and uncountable, plural ganaches)

  1. A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.
    • The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!2006, Dede Wilson, Truffles: 50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 11
    • She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. (historical) A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.
    • M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ...1819, James Robinson Planche, A Cyclopedia Of Costume Vol. II A General History Of Costume In Europe, page 85
    • , The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson
      Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. […] a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of...
    Synonyms:
    garnache
  3. (obsolete) A fool

Verb

ganache (third-person singular simple present ganaches, present participle ganaching, simple past and past participle ganached)

  1. (transitive) To coat with ganache.
    • to ganache the sides of a cake

ganache meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

ganache in Tamil

இன்குழைவு

ganache in Indonesian

sauce
ganace

Synonyms of ganache

Forms of ganache

Noun
pluralganaches
Verb
third-person singular presentganaches
present participleganaching
past participleganached
pastganached

Origin of ganache

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

Words that rhyme with ganache

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Questions about ganache

What does ganache mean?
Ganache means a rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.
What is ganache in Tamil?
Ganache in Tamil is இன்குழைவு. See Ganache meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ganache?
Ganache can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ganache?
Ganache is pronounced /ɡəˈnæʃ/.
What is the plural of ganache?
The plural of ganache is ganaches.

Words near ganache in the dictionary

  1. gamut
  2. gamuts
  3. gamy
  4. gamyness
  5. gan
  6. ganache
  7. ganached
  8. ganaches
  9. ganaching
  10. Ganado
  11. Ganadonegro

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ganache (page history and authors); ganache (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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