gelee

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

• gelée

gelee (countable and uncountable, plural gelees)

1. Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.
   • 2006, Poppy Z. Brite, chapter 19, in Soul Kitchen: A Novel (Rickey and G-man; 4), New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 257:

     While they were puzzling over it, another course arrived: three tiny monkey dishes, each holding two cubes of gelee, set atop glass bowls in which live Siamese fighting fish swam listlessly back and forth.

gelee (plural gelees)

1. Alternative form of gele (“type of women’s headwrap”).

• Elgee

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈleː/
• Hyphenation: ge‧lee
• Rhymes: -eː

gelee

1. apocopic form of geleden

gelee

1. alternative form of gele

• gelede
• jallee, jaleie, jalee
• gelé, geley, geleye, giellee

From Early Medieval Latin gelāta, derived from Latin gelāre. By surface analysis, geler +‎ -ee. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese geada.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːðə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːə/, /d͡ʒa-/

gelee oblique singular, f (oblique plural gelees, nominative singular gelee, nominative plural gelees)

1. cold spell; period of coldness

• gelee on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gĕlāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 86