1
: a light spongy food usually containing cream or gelatin
2
: a molded chilled dessert made with sweetened and flavored whipped cream or egg whites and gelatin
chocolate mousse
3
: a foamy preparation used in styling hair
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Noun
a jar of styling mousse
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Taryn White, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Goldie’s also hosts a delightful afternoon tea, with sweets like strawberry and cream cake, peaches and cream tart, early grey tea mousse along with savories such as butter scones, coronation gougere (cheese Gougère, coronation chicken salad, apricots, almonds), and burrata tomato tartine.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The dessert buffet offers 50 desserts, from elaborate preparations like Floating Island with custard, meringue, and a spun sugar garnish, to comforting grandma style desserts like chocolate mousse and rice pudding.
—Michelle Greenwald, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Dessert was a tangerine mousse with roasted pineapple, almond crumbs and coconut ice cream, as well as slices of Waldorf-Astoria red velvet cake.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Delight in creations such as white chocolate cherry blossom mousse and passion fruit cremeux.
—Taryn White, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Goldie’s also hosts a delightful afternoon tea, with sweets like strawberry and cream cake, peaches and cream tart, early grey tea mousse along with savories such as butter scones, coronation gougere (cheese Gougère, coronation chicken salad, apricots, almonds), and burrata tomato tartine.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The dessert buffet offers 50 desserts, from elaborate preparations like Floating Island with custard, meringue, and a spun sugar garnish, to comforting grandma style desserts like chocolate mousse and rice pudding.
—Michelle Greenwald, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Dessert was a tangerine mousse with roasted pineapple, almond crumbs and coconut ice cream, as well as slices of Waldorf-Astoria red velvet cake.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Mousse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mousse. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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mousse
1 of 2 noun1
: a light whipped or molded food
especially
: a cold dessert of sweetened and flavored whipped cream or egg whites and gelatin
2
: a foamy preparation used in styling hair
mousse
2 of 2 verb
moussed; moussing
: to style (hair) with mousse
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