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Neapolitan ice cream

noun

  1. variously flavored and colored ice cream and ice mixtures frozen in layers.


Neapolitan ice cream

noun

  1. ice cream, usually in brick form, with several layers of different colours and flavours
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Neapolitan ice cream1

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
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Example Sentences

He said, “those numbers are way out of proportion to what people should expect,” and likened the offending outcome to getting a container of Neapolitan ice cream with an unacceptable “75 percent strawberry.”

That was enough to buy one gallon of Neapolitan ice cream, which she said was not only delicious but had lots of calcium and would be good for our bones.

The Neapolitan ice cream sandwich swing was hung shoddily from a single exposed pipe on the ceiling, and it would make this horrible croaking sound every time we rocked back and forth.

Andrew Gafford, 8, said he has always spent his summers enjoying a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich at the pool.

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After the Neapolitan ice cream, on to the next stop on Devi's rounds.

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