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Meaning of bavaroise | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/bævəɹˈwɑz/

Definitions

  1. A drink of sweetened milk, eggs and tea, often with some sort of spirit.
  2. A cold dessert made from custard, cream and gelatine.
    proscribed, sometimes

Equivalents

Suomi bavaroise
Polski Bawarka

Examples

“In the A flat andante, flowing like sweet honey, the waiter brings him, instead of coffee, a bavaroise; in the defiant C major Beethoven bellows out for his coffee: the waiter looks anxiously around, and, after a time again brings the bavaroise, but this time milled with “Obers.””
“Cyrillia always prepares something for me on my return from the beach,—either a little pot of fresh cocoa-water, or a cocoyage, or a mabiyage, or a bavaroise.”
“Bavaroise is taken at night before retiring.”
“He ordered himself a bavaroise and he had begun to sip it when he was aware of a presence at his elbow.”
“Saint Foix had a duel with a gentleman, whom he saw at the Café Procope, eating a bavaroise.”
“Pistachio-and-Strawberry Bavaroise”
“A chocolate bavaroise may be made the same as above, adding two ounces of chocolate dissolved in a little water just before the mixture is strained.”
“There are any number of variants on the classic bavaroise, the most elegant of chilled puddings.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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