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- noun An oblong chocolate covered creme filled
pastry , usually larger than a Frenchéclair .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Megan believes that national health insurance will give the government license to decide that we can never really want a second chocolate eclair.
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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
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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.
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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
sakhalinskii commented on the word eclair
An unsavoury combination of pastry, cream, chocolate and the French.
August 8, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word eclair
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
shevek commented on the word eclair
Just to sell these, I want to start a bakery in Eu Claire, Wisconsin.
August 8, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word eclair
Bakery products in the fourth dimension, it would appear.
August 8, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word eclair
They'd have to be very, very unleavened and wafer-thin not to be four-dimensional.
August 8, 2008