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mousses

mousses is the plural of mousse.

mousses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mousse.

Meaning of mousse

Noun

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

  1. An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
  2. A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
    • ham mousse
  3. A styling cream used for hair.
    • He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
  4. A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
    • Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN

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Questions about mousses

What is mousses the plural of?
Mousses is the plural of mousse.

Words near mousses in the dictionary

  1. mousseline
  2. mousseline de laine
  3. mousseline de laines
  4. mousselines
  5. mousselines de laine
  6. mousses
  7. mousseux
  8. moussing
  9. Moussorgski
  10. moussy
  11. moustache

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