yaourt

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A form of yogurt — A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.

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nounyaourt (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of yogurt.
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    Yaourt is simply the milk turned sour and somewhat resembles curds only that it is thicker in consistency. The milk is originally turned by introducing a few drops of the milk of the fig into a bowl of sheep or goat's milk gently heated and then allowed to cool. A spoonful of the yaourt is kept as a kind of leaven and is sufficient to convert a large bowl of milk into yaourt. Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.

    1885, Cyprus guide and directory, page 82

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nounyaourt (plural yaourts)

plural yaourts

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of yurt.

    […] yaourts with their felt covering are very draughty, and it is hard to keep warm even wrapped in fur […]

    1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind: The Africans of the interior, page 336

Origin

  1. Turkishyoğurt
  2. Frenchyaourt
  3. Englishyaourt

From French yaourt, from Turkish yoğurt. Doublet of yogurt.

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