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custard

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Noun

HYPHEN

cus=tard

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun custard has 1 sense

custard(n = noun.food) Array - sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen; Array

is a kind of

dish

has particulars: creme caramel, creme anglais, creme brulee, fruit custard, bavarian cream

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CIDE DICTIONARY

custard, n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.].

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. [1913 Webster]

Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

custard, n.
1 a dish made with milk and eggs, usu. sweetened.
2 a sweet sauce made with milk and flavoured cornflour.

Idiom

custard-apple a W. Indian fruit, Annona reticulata, with a custard-like pulp. custard-pie
1 a pie containing custard, commonly thrown in slapstick comedy.
2 (attrib.) denoting slapstick comedy. custard powder a preparation of cornflour etc. for making custard.

Etymology

ME, earlier crusta(r)de f. AF f. OF crouste CRUST

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