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plombir

plombir noun: a type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar.

plombir: a type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar
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Noun

plombir (uncountable)

  1. A type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar.
    • There are two dessert choices, baklava and plombir, a creamy almond ice.1983, Alena Lasley, Paul Lasley, Frommer’s 1983-84 Guide to San Francisco, New York, N.Y.: Frommer/Pasmantier Publishers, →ISBN, page 57
    • There were Russian hors d’oeuvres of black caviar, a roasted pheasant as an entrée, and cream plombir for dessert.1999, Muse Norcross Kotenev, “Father Writes Books”, in Through the MOONgate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 77

Examples of plombir in a sentence

  • For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”2003, Valentina Antonievna Seletzky, “The Evgoschino Interlude”, in Mosaic: A Child’s Recollections of the Russian Revolution, Lincoln...
  • [W]arm plombir drops drip on the pavement, on her bag and shoes.2016, Anna Nemzer, translated by Ronan Quinn, “Trigger”, in Prisoner, London: Glagoslav Publications Ltd, →ISBN:
  • You can also use silicone baking molds or silicone ice cube trays, which allow the plombir to be easily popped out after freezing.2017, Bonnie Frumkin Morales with Deena Prichep, “Plombir with Black Currant Tea Milk Caramel”, in Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking, New...

Origin of plombir

From Russian пломби́р (plombír), from French plombières (“ice cream made with almond extract, kirsch, and candied fruit”), possibly after the commune of Plombières-les-Bains.

Questions about plombir

What does plombir mean?
Plombir means a type of ice cream made with vanilla, cream, eggs, and sugar.
How do you use plombir in a sentence?
For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”
What part of speech is plombir?
Plombir is a noun.

Words near plombir in the dictionary

  1. ploidyless
  2. Ploiești
  3. ploink
  4. PLOKTA
  5. plombiferous
  6. plombir
  7. Plombières-lès-Dijon
  8. plomestane
  9. plompies
  10. plompy
  11. plonge

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