ganache

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English

ganache chocolate sauce
a cake with a ganache glaze

Etymology

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (jaw), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

Pronunciation

Noun

ganache (countable and uncountable, plural ganaches)

  1. A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.
    • 2006, Dede Wilson, Truffles: 50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 11:
      The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!
    • 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.
  2. (historical) A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.
    Synonym: garnache
    • 1819, James Robinson Planche, A Cyclopedia Of Costume Vol. II A General History Of Costume In Europe, page 85:
      M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ...
    • (Can we date this quote?), The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson
      Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved travelling robe).
    • 2001, John Steane, The Archaeology of Power: England and Northern Europe, AD 800-1600, Tempus Pub Limited
      Illuminated miniatures show them in long robes of plain or rayed material, hoods and coifs. shows a man 6ft in length dressed in a ganache or tabard with two tongues or labels at the neck and a coif tied round his head.
    • 2020, Paul Doherty, The House of Shadows, Canelo, →ISBN:
      Cranston plucked at the ganache, the over-robe Bohun wore, tied round the middle with a ribbon. 'You've lost weight?' 'Bellum intestinum,' Bohun whispered, picking up the tankard. 'War within! There's something wrong with my gut, ...

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ganascia (jaw).

Pronunciation

Noun

ganache f (plural ganaches)

  1. (anatomy) jawbone
  2. (figuratively, informal) face
  3. (figuratively, informal) fool, numskull
  4. (cooking) ganache (sauce made of chocolate and cream)

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Noun

ganache m or f same meaning (plural ganaches)

  1. ganache