Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elongated pastry filled with custard or whipped cream and usually iced with chocolate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small oblong cake, filled with a cream or custard, and glazed with chocolate or sugar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small chocolate covered
creme filledpastry puff in a generaloblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun oblong cream puff
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French esclair, lightning, from esclairier, to light up, from Vulgar Latin *exclāriāre, from Latin exclārāre : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex– + clārus, clear; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]
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From French éclair
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