mousse – English noun declension

English noun forms of mousse

Noun: mousse
Singularmousse
Pluralmousses

Sample Sentences

  • ham mousse
  • He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
  • Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b). [1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN:]
  • A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse. [1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:]
  • When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea. [1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:]
  • However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference [2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:]

Etymology

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss. See: French Nouns 'mousse'.