gelee

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See also: Gelee, gelée, and gélée

English

Etymology 1

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

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Noun

gelee (countable and uncountable, plural gelees)

  1. Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
    • 2006, Poppy Z. Brite, chapter 19, in Soul Kitchen: A Novel (Rickey and G-man; 4), New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 257:
      While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth.
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Etymology 2

Noun

gelee (plural gelees)

  1. Alternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”).

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣəˈleː/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧lee
  • Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

gelee

  1. apocopic form of geleden

Middle English

Noun

gelee

  1. alternative form of gele

Old French

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Etymology

    From Early Medieval Latin gelāta, derived from Latin gelāre. By surface analysis, geler +‎ -ee. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese geada.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    gelee oblique singular, f (oblique plural gelees, nominative singular gelee, nominative plural gelees)

    1. cold spell; period of coldness

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