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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fondant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cover the cake with the appropriate pieces of red fondant, smoothing into the angle on the front.
▪ Gently attach to the card, resting the base on a matchbox to raise the cake slightly off the green fondant.
▪ Roll out and cover in turn with half the fondant.
▪ The recipe given here is a quick-to-make fondant that does not need cooking.
▪ The steering wheel is made from a semi-circle of black or brown fondant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fondant

Fondant \Fon"dant\ (f[o^]n"dant; Fr. f[^o]N`d[aum]N"), n. [F., lit., melting, p. pr. of fondre to melt, L. fundere. See Found to cast.] A kind of soft candy, made of a thick creamy sugar paste by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, and usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fondant

1877, from French fondant, noun use of present participle of fondre "to melt" (see found (v.2)).

Wiktionary
fondant

Etymology 1 n. 1 (cx usually uncountable English) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies. 2 (cx countable English) A candy filled with such a preparation. 3 (rfv-sense) Dark chocolate. 4 (rfv-sense) A croquette. 5 (cx usually uncountable English) The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion. Etymology 2

a. (cx heraldry English) Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc.

WordNet
fondant

n. candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste

Wikipedia
Fondant

Fondant may refer to:

  • Chocolate fondant, a type of pudding
  • Fondant icing, a type of icing which is commonly used on decorative cakes
  • Fondant potatoes, also known as pommes fondant, a method of preparing potatoes

Usage examples of "fondant".

A luxurious white fondant, creamy and sweet, with the faintest shell on the outside.

Sir Timothy offered her a glass of port, which she declined, saying, however, that she was very content to nibble a fondant while he lingered over his wine.

Redcurrant tarts, bilberry scones, plumcakes, latticed apple pies, strawberry flans and damson puddings radiated out into patterns, dotted by bowls of nutcream, meadowcream, Abbeycream, rosecream and buttercup fondant.

He had huge boxes of fondants, crystallised fruits and marzipan sent over from Paris twice a week when he was at St.

Chocolates--boxes of chocolates, bowls of fondant, bacon, crisp bacon--fat, port wine, and then butter, everything soaked in butter and whipped cream.