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vanilla Noun 1. a flavouring for food such as ice cream, which comes from the pods of a tropical plant 2. a flavouring extract prepared from the beans of this plant and used in cooking Adjective 1. flavoured with vanilla: vanilla essence 2. Slang ordinary or conventional: a vanilla kind of guy [Spanish vainilla pod]
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| It was pronounced a great success--excellent if it had only contained a little less vanilla or a little more sugar, if it had been frozen a degree harder, and if the salt might have been kept out of portions of it. The broad road was shaded by pepper-trees, and on each side were the plantations, cocoa-nut and vanilla. ‡ There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla, during the time of its expansion, which is very short. |
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