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Lacroix's cream puff
Answer for the clue "Lacroix's cream puff ", 6 letters:
eclair
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Word definitions for eclair in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, oblong cake filled with cream or custard and glazed or iced," 1861, from French éclair , literally "lightning," from Old French esclair "light, daylight, flash of light," verbal noun from esclairare "to light up, illuminate, make shine" (12c.), ...
Usage examples of eclair.
Ordinarily gentle citizens came to blows over eclairs, and the few remaining sources of unhomogenized baklavas threatened to become the source of serious feuds.
Kitty also bought a french loaf, six large crusty baps, and some naughty chocolate eclairs.
From the display cases, she selected a chocolate eclair, a creme brulee tart with kiwi on top, a piece of white-chocolate macadamia-nut cheesecake with Oreo-crumb crust, a cinnamon wheel, and a slice of orange roulade.
The elves who had brought the eclairs gave her disapproving looks as they returned to work.
They sat down and ordered lemonade, egg-sandwiches, meringues, chocolate eclairs and chocolate slices.
They werent going to remember defeat when eclairs and meringues and chocolate cake were spread in front of them!
The gargoyle leapt aside at the mention of toffee eclairs, and Harry took the spiral staircase two steps at a time, knocking on the door just as a clock within chimed eight.
November 11, 1987: For the second time in a week, Stoma is busted, this time for shoplifting a bundt cake and two chocolate eclairs from a downtown Phoenix bakery.
November n, 1987: For the second time in a week, Stoma is busted, this time for shoplifting a bundt cake and two chocolate eclairs from a downtown Phoenix bakery.
There is sufficient plum cake, saffron cake, cherrycake, iced fairy cakes, eclairs, gingerbread, meringues, syllabub,almond fingers, rock cakes, chocolate cakes, parkin, cream horns,Devonshire splits, Cornish pasty, jam sandwiches, lemon curdsandwiches, lettuce sandwiches, cinnamon toast and honey toast to feedtwenty and more.
I had just decided upon a large, succulent-looking lemon meringue tart, torn between it and the chocolate eclair oozing cream lying beside it, when a shadow fell across the open doorway.
She frantically stuffed the other half of a chocolate eclair into her mouth.
Youre starting to look at that woman like shes a chocolate eclair.
Displayed inside were doughnuts, cakes, eclairs, breads, cookies, pies, cream horns, Danish pastries, and pastry art: confections in the shapes and colors of leaves, flowers, human figures, cars, and ships.
But she must finish her dessert, too - like all chi-chis she had a passion for sugary confections - so she brought it to bed, if you please, and gorged herself on eclairs and cream slices while I fondled her, well content to play restfully for a change.