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gelee

gelee noun: any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes. Also the alternative form of gele.

Noun

gelee (countable and uncountable, plural gelees)

  1. Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
    • While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth.2006, Poppy Z. Brite, chapter 19, in Soul Kitchen: A Novel (Rickey and G-man; 4), New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 257

Also used as

gelee is also the alternative form of gele.

Forms of gelee

pluralgelees
alternative formgelée

Origin of gelee

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

Questions about gelee

What does gelee mean?
Gelee means any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
What part of speech is gelee?
Gelee is a noun.
What is the plural of gelee?
The plural of gelee is gelees.

Words near gelee in the dictionary

  1. gelechiine
  2. gelechiines
  3. gelechioid
  4. gelechioids
  5. Geledi
  6. gelee
  7. gelees
  8. Gelendzhik
  9. geleophysic
  10. Gelephu
  11. gelept

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