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  • noun An oblong chocolate covered creme filled pastry, usually larger than a French éclair.

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Examples

  • The eclair was a two bite treat, just enough to leave an impression on my mind before I devoured it.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • Megan believes that national health insurance will give the government license to decide that we can never really want a second chocolate eclair.

    Balloon Juice » 2009 » July 2009

  • She got an immediate image in her mind of a fat woman in a fleece with a scowl on her face and a chocolate eclair poised halfway into her gob.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • We took your advice and went out to Downtown Puteax, a part of te Paris conurbation at La Defense and bought some artisanally cured ham, a bagette of extraordinary quality, some fresh and sweet cherry tomatoes, some incredible cheese, mayonaisse made with extra virgin olive oil and that will see us through the day with a bit of red wine and an eclair.

    I Love Paris in the Summer When it Drizzles 2009

  • To think that there once was a time when real bakeries were actually competing to make the best kuchen or eclair. (sigh)

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Lochner v. New York as a Test Case 2010

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  • An unsavoury combination of pastry, cream, chocolate and the French.

    August 8, 2008

  • How can we not have the famous Chambers definition? A cake, long in shape but short in duration, with cream filling and usually chocolate icing.

    August 8, 2008

  • Just to sell these, I want to start a bakery in Eu Claire, Wisconsin.

    August 8, 2008

  • Bakery products in the fourth dimension, it would appear.

    August 8, 2008

  • They'd have to be very, very unleavened and wafer-thin not to be four-dimensional.

    August 8, 2008