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a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.Also, peach melba, pêche Melba.[1925-30, Amer.]
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Peach Melba — Peach Melba, garnished with slivered almonds The Peach Melba (French: pêche Melba, pronounced [pɛʃ mɛl.ba]) is a classic dessert, invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian… … Wikipedia
peach melba — noun ice cream and peaches with a liqueur • Hypernyms: ↑dessert, ↑sweet, ↑afters * * * peach Melba f5 [peach Melba peach Melbas] [ˌpiːtʃ ˈmelbə] [ˌpiːtʃ ˈmelbə] … Useful english dictionary
Peach Melba — noun (gastronomy) Peach Melba: classic French dessert, combing peaches and raspberry sauce accompanied with vanilla ice cream … Wiktionary
peach Melba — peach′ Mel′ba n. coo a dessert of peach halves topped with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce Etymology: 1905–10; after Nellie Melba; cf. earlier F pêches (à la) Melba … From formal English to slang
Peach Melba — Peach Mel|ba [ˌpi:tʃ ˈmelbə] n [U and C] half a peach served with ice cream and ↑raspberry juice … Dictionary of contemporary English
peach melba — peach mel|ba [ ,pitʃ melbə ] noun uncount a sweet food that consists of half a PEACH with ICE CREAM and RASPBERRY sauce on top … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
peach Melba — noun a dish of ice cream and peaches with Melba sauce. Origin from the name of the Australian operatic soprano Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931) … English new terms dictionary
peach Melba — /pitʃ ˈmɛlbə/ (say peech melbuh) noun fresh peaches, poached in a sugar syrup, served round vanilla ice cream, all topped with Melba sauce. {created in 1893 by Auguste Escoffier, 1847?–1935, French chef, for Dame Nellie Melba} …
Peach Melba — noun (C, U) half a peach served with ice cream and raspberry juice … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
peach melba — UK [ˌpiːtʃ ˈmelbə] / US [ˌpɪtʃ ˈmelbə] noun [uncountable] a sweet food that consists of half a peach with ice cream and raspberry sauce on top … English dictionary
