mousse

Any of various chilled desserts made with flavored whipped cream, gelatin, and eggs.

A molded dish containing meat, fish, or shellfish combined with whipped cream and gelatin.

An aerosol foam used to control and style the hair.

To apply a styling foam to (the hair).

In cookery, a whipped cream, sweetened and variously flavored, with or without eggs, and frozen without stirring.

A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before — not during — the freezing process.

Any of a variety of foods whipped to a light texture.

A foam containing special chemicals, used for styling hair.

An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.

A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.