vacherin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vacherin, from Franco-Provençal [Term?].

Noun

vacherin (countable and uncountable, plural vacherins)

1. A soft cow's-milk cheese from France and Switzerland.
   • 2007 March 26, Caitlin Moran, The Times:

     After all, the lure of endless, sensual evil is as nothing compared to a good, spoonable Vacherin.

2. (countable) A kind of cake made with meringue and cream or ice cream.

Translations

type of cheese

• French: vacherin (fr) m
• Japanese: ヴァシュラン (vashuran)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaʃ.ʁɛ̃/

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Noun

vacherin m (plural vacherins)

1. vacherin
2. a kind of cake made with meringue and cream or ice cream

Further reading

• “vacherin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.