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mellorine

mellorine noun: a lower-cost imitation of ice cream, using fats other than butterfat.

Noun

mellorine (uncountable)

  1. A lower-cost imitation of ice cream, using fats other than butterfat.
    • "Mellorine" is providing a new and promising market for beef fats. It is a frozen desert, closely resembling ice cream.1931, American Beef Producer, page 26
    • Mellorine is a recent American term for "ice cream" which is made not from butter fat but from vegetable oils, because the term "ice cream" in the United States is only permitted for foods containing butter fat as the sole source of fat […]1939, Food Industries Manual, British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association, page 597

Questions about mellorine

What does mellorine mean?
Mellorine means a lower-cost imitation of ice cream, using fats other than butterfat.
What part of speech is mellorine?
Mellorine is a noun.

Words near mellorine in the dictionary

  1. mellophone
  2. mellophones
  3. mellophonist
  4. mellophonists
  5. Mellor
  6. mellorine
  7. Mellors
  8. mellos
  9. mellosses
  10. mellotron
  11. mellotrons

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