Definitions for parfait

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parfait par·fait

Spelling: [pahr-fey]

IPA: /pɑrˈfeɪ/

Parfait is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in parfait (aafiprt).

Definitions for parfait

noun

1. a dessert of ice cream and fruit or ice cream and syrup in alternate layers, often topped with whipped cream and served in a tall, narrow, short-stemmed glass.
2. any frozen dessert in which fruit, nuts, etc., have been folded into whipped cream or egg custard.

Origin of parfait

1890-95; French: literally, perfect Latin perfectus. See perfect

Examples for parfait

Besides his memoirs he wrote a book called the parfait Capitaine, and some others.

Line the mold with an ice and fill the center with a mousse or a parfait.

With her crew of 740 men the parfait was run alongside, and her bowsprit lashed to the fore-rigging of the Falcon.

And Angela broke into laughter, repeating the name aloud, "parfait d'Amour!"

The absence of M. de la Fayette from the line threw the 'parfait' into peril.

Every generation seems to have furnished its parfait gentilhomme par excellence.

I don't believe that we could have been any jollier had there been ten courses, winding up with a parfait au caf and a demi-tasse.

The prince parfait understood her secret desire and made it known to his mother, the fairy Bienveillante.

But I mean to wade right through from hors-d'œuvres to parfait.

I refused the parfait aux frais and the savoury in my eagerness for the end of the meal.