# ganache
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ganache, from Italian ganascia (“jaw”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos) (see gnatho-).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡəˈnæʃ/, /ɡəˈnɑːʃ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æʃ, -ɑːʃ

### Noun

ganache (countable and uncountable, plural ganaches)
* A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.
** 2006, Dede Wilson, Truffles: 50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 11:The centers of truffles are typically a ganache, which is most often simply a mixture of chocolate and cream. The recipes will direct you to chop the chocolate finely—do not overlook this step!
** 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.
* (historical) A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.
    Synonym: garnache
** 1819, James Robinson Planche, A Cyclopedia Of Costume Vol. II A General History Of Costume In Europe, page 85:M. Viollet-le-Duc says the ganache, which he considers a beautiful and simple garment, disappeared at the end of the fourteenth century. M. Quicherat makes brief mention of it as a surcoat without sleeves or girdle , and neither ...
** (Can we date this quote?), The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson
    Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. […] a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved travelling robe).
** 2001, John Steane, The Archaeology of Power: England and Northern Europe, AD 800-1600, Tempus Pub Limited
    Illuminated miniatures show them in long robes of plain or rayed material, hoods and coifs. […] shows a man 6ft in length dressed in a ganache or tabard with two tongues or labels at the neck and a coif tied round his head.
** 2020, Paul Doherty, The House of Shadows, Canelo, →ISBN:Cranston plucked at the ganache, the over-robe Bohun wore, tied round the middle with a ribbon. 'You've lost weight?' 'Bellum intestinum,' Bohun whispered, picking up the tankard. 'War within! There's something wrong with my gut, ...

#### Translations
### Verb

ganache (third-person singular simple present ganaches, present participle ganaching, simple past and past participle ganached)
* (transitive) To coat with ganache.
    to ganache the sides of a cake

### Further reading

* ganache on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:ganache on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ganascia (“jaw”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.naʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ganache f (plural ganaches)
* (anatomy) jawbone
* (figuratively, informal) face
* (figuratively, informal) fool, numskull
* (cooking) ganache (sauce made of chocolate and cream)
* (theater) The role of a stupid and gullible old man.
* (furniture) Padded armchair.
* (veterinary medicine) cachexia, one of the symptoms of which is swelling under the mandible.

### Further reading

* ganache on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$
* “ganache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* changea

## Spanish
### Noun

ganache m or f same meaning (plural ganaches)
* ganache