ganache

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A rich sauce, made of chocolate and cream, used also as the filling of truffles, and as a glaze.

   “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!”

   “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.”

2. (countable, historical, uncountable)A kind of surcoat with short cap sleeves.

   “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 ...”

   “, 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.”

   “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, ...”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A fool

verb

1. (transitive)To coat with ganache.

   “to ganache the sides of a cake”