eclair
eclairs
An eclair is a delicious French pastry that's filled with cream and topped with chocolate. You might think of an eclair as a fancy donut — although Parisians might disagree with you.
The French éclair means "flash of lightning," and the scrumptious pastry got its name from the tendency people have to eat eclairs "in a flash." The 19th century Chambers Dictionary famously defined the eclair as "a cake, long in shape but short in duration." An eclair is like a stretched-out cream puff, choux dough baked and filled with creamy custard. Try one and see how long it lasts.
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an oblong cream puff
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types:
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chocolate eclair
eclair topped with chocolate
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type of:
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chou, cream puff
puff filled with cream or custard
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chocolate eclair
Vocabulary lists containing eclair
Zoe dreams of being a piano player — but when her father buys an old organ instead of a piano, she must learn to adapt.
After being abandoned at a campsite in Maine, eleven-year-old Jack tries to make his way back home to Boston.
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