Souffle Definition
 so͝o-flā 
  souffles
  
    noun
  
 A soft, blowing sound heard on auscultation.
 Webster's New World 
Any of several baked foods, as a dish prepared with white sauce and egg yolks and some additional ingredient, as cheese, made light and puffy by beaten egg whites added before baking.
 Webster's New World 
    adjective
  
 Made light and puffy in the process of being cooked or baked.
 Webster's New World 
Origin of Souffle
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French from past participle of souffler to puff up from Old French soffler from Latin sufflāre sub- sub- flāre to blow bhlē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
 
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