ice-cream sundae
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- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌkrim ˈsʌndeɪ/
:
sundae de helado
- She celebrated her birthday with a huge ice-cream sundae loaded with fresh fruit.
- eat ice-cream sundae
- make an ice-cream sundae
- ice-cream sundae with chocolate
They had a Rocky Road ice cream sundae for dessert.
- They had a Rocky Road ice cream sundae for dessert.
- They've now started to put this on top of like Indian ice cream sundaes.
- And one of his challenges was to eat the the kitchen sink ice cream sundae.
- She doesn't like to eat the ice cream sundae.
- BA video slideshow full of pics from the year or CA red carpet and ice cream sundaes.
Examples
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The day after the fair, my parents and I were downtown at Doreen's Drugstore, having ice cream sundaes—we were all tired of pie.
Fiction book (2000) -
I ordered a chocolate ice-cream sundae topped with whipped cream and sprinkles.
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But I should also mention that we got to eat ice cream sundaes.
Blog text (21) -
"Well, you better get your free ice cream sundae," she said.
Blog text (11) -
The children eat ice cream sundaes.
Fiction book (2000) -
I wish for the world's biggest ice cream sundae.
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Ice cream sundaes all around.
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Then we went to the make-your-own ice cream sundae bar.
Fiction book (1994) -
I take Antonia out for one of the largest ice cream sundaes in the Western Hemisphere.
Fiction book (1999) -
They had a Rocky Road ice cream sundae for dessert.
Synonyms
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Ice cream with sweet sauce, for example fruit or nuts
How Topped
Surface Forms
Morphology
ice-cream + sundae
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'sundae' denotes ice cream served with toppings, and 'ice-cream sundae' simply specifies that the dessert is made from ice cream. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent food-naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Ice-cream sundae The name may come from a simple picture: shops in the late 1800s served a bowl of ice-cream with syrup as a special treat on 'Sunday', and they later changed the spelling to sundae. So the name came to mean a bowl of ice cream with sweet toppings.