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ga·nache

 (gə-näsh′)
n.
A rich icing made of chocolate and cream heated and stirred together, used also as a filling, as for cakes or pastry.

[French, lower jaw of a horse, jowl, good-for-nothing idiot, ganache, from Italian ganascia, jaw, from Vulgar Latin *ganathus, from Greek gnathos; see genu- in Indo-European roots.]
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ganache

(ɡəˈnæʃ)
n
(Cookery) a smooth mixture of chocolate and cream, used in cakes, truffles, and chocolates
[C20: from French]
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