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# souffle

«souffle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light, fluffy baked dish made with beaten egg whites…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a soufflé, soufflés; also written souffle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (cooking) A soufflé is a light, fluffy baked dish made with beaten egg whites, which puffs up high in the oven; it can be savoury (cheese) or sweet (chocolate, lemon). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#m1)

2) The word is French and means "puffed up" or "breathed". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, soufflés teach how air beaten into egg whites expands when heated, so the dish rises — a bit of science. Soufflés are famous for being tricky: they collapse quickly if you open the oven or wait too long. In stories and TV cookery shows, a sinking soufflé is a classic disaster.

### examples

- The cheese soufflé rose high above the dish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x1)
- Don't open the oven door or the soufflé will sink! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x2)
- We had a chocolate soufflé for pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x3)
- A soufflé is made with whipped egg whites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x4)
- Serve the soufflé straight away before it falls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x5)
- The chef's soufflé was as light as a cloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x6)
- Hot air in the egg bubbles makes a soufflé puff up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/#x7)

### note

Written with an accent in French and in careful English: soufflé; "souffle" without the accent is common in plain text. Say "SOO-flay". Countable: soufflés. A different medical word "souffle" (a soft heart sound) exists but is rare.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «souffle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/souffle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.