éclair
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈklɛə/, /eɪ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈklɛɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Noun
editéclair (plural éclairs)
- A small chocolate-covered creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.
Translations
editoblong, chocolate-covered, cream-filled pastry
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editNoun
editéclair m (plural éclairs)
- lightning bolt
- flash
- sparkle
- éclair (pastry)
- éclair au café ― coffee éclair
- éclair au chocolat ― chocolate éclair
Derived terms
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edit- → Bulgarian: еклер (ekler)
- → Dutch: eclair
- → English: éclair
- → German: Eclair
- → Greek: εκλέρ (eklér), εκλαίρ n (eklaír)
- → Italian: éclair
- → Macedonian: еклер (ekler)
- → Polish: ekler
- → Portuguese: ecler
- → Romanian: ecler
- → Russian: экле́р (eklér)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: éclair
- → Swedish: éclair
- → Turkish: ekler
Adjective
editéclair (invariable)
- (postpositive, idiomatic) very fast
- 1866, Victor Hugo, Correspondance : t. 2 : 1849-1866:
- Que je voudrais être, pour parler comme Saint-Simon, bombardé votant de Guernesey aux Quatre-Nations, le 23, crever le dôme de l’Institut et tomber au milieu de ces prunelles rondes, avec le vote-éclair : Jules Janin.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
edit- “éclair”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editéclair m
Spanish
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editUnadapted borrowing from French éclair.
Pronunciation
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editéclair m
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
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editéclair c
Declension
editDeclension of éclair | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | éclair | éclairen | éclairer | éclairerna |
Genitive | éclairs | éclairens | éclairers | éclairernas |
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