Definitions for parfaits

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parfaits par·fait

Spelling: [pahr-fey]

IPA: /pɑrˈfeɪ/

Parfaits is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 318 anagrams from letters in parfaits (aafiprst).

Definitions for parfaits

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 parfaits

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

Examples for parfaits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.