mousse (mousse)

noun

• 1a sweet or savoury dish made as a smooth, light mass in which the main ingredient is whipped with cream and egg white: sponge topped with chocolate mousse [count noun]: a salmon mousse

• 2a soft, light, aerated gel such as a soap preparation: fragrant shower mousse
• a frothy preparation that is applied to the hair, enabling it to be styled more easily: the result was secured in place with a handful of mousse [count noun]: experiment with different styling products such as mousses and gels

• 3 (also chocolate mousse) a frothy brown emulsion of oil and seawater formed by weathering of an oil slick.

verb

• style (hair) using mousse: mousse each section before winding on rollers (as adjective moussed) his blow-dried and moussed hair