parfait

English

Etymology

From French parfait (“perfect”)

Noun

parfait (plural parfaits)

1. Short for French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
2. Short for American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.

Quotations

• 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, page 379

  Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

Translations

an iced dessert

• Hungarian: parfé (hu)
• Japanese: パフェ (pafe) (ja)

• Marathi: पार्फे (mr) (pārfe) m

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• parfee

Etymology

From French parfait (“perfect”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈpɑrfeː]
• Hyphenation: par‧fait

Noun

parfait

1. parfait

Declension

Declension of parfait (type parfait) singular plural nominative parfait parfait't genitive parfait'n parfait'iden partitive parfait'ta parfait'ita accusative parfait parfait'n parfait't inessive parfait'ssa parfait'issa elative parfait'sta parfait'ista illative parfait'hen parfait'ihin adessive parfait'lla parfait'illa ablative parfait'lta parfait'ilta allative parfait'lle parfait'ille essive parfait'na parfait'ina translative parfait'ksi parfait'iksi instructive – parfait'in abessive parfait'tta parfait'itta comitative – parfait'ineen

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /paʁ.fɛ/, X-SAMPA: /paR.fE/

Adjective

parfait m (feminine parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)

1. perfect (exactly right)

   Le déjeuner était parfait.

   The lunch was perfect.

Noun

parfait m (plural parfaits)

1. (grammar) perfect tense

See also

• parfaitement
• perfection
• plus-que-parfait

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Jèrriais

Noun

parfait m (plural parfaits)

1. (grammar) perfect tense