éclairn.
/eɪˈklɛː/ A small finger-shaped cake made of choux-pastry, and filled with any of various kinds of cream.
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lozengec1430
rundle1587
macaroon1611
cookie1701
Savoy biscuit1719
queen cake1734
madling cake1747
dough1777
butter biscuit1789
rock cake1815
biscuit1818
madeleine1829
éclair1861
fairy cake1867
puftaloon1871
Eccles cake1872
petit four1875
rock bun1879
baby cake1880
rock1892
marigold1896
sponge finger1906
muffin top1914
palmier1920
lamington1929
whoopee pie1929
mandazi1937
French fancy1969
fondant fancy1974
1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 2 Feb. 50/1 A waiter, whereon stood..a plate of macaroons, éclairs and sponge cake.
1870 London Society Dec. 506/2 You get..meringue à la crême, eclairs.
1889 R. Wells Pastrycook & Confectioner's Guide 103 Eclairs..after baking fill with cream.
1902 Daily Chron. 15 Feb. 8/4 Chocolate éclairs are not difficult to make at home.
1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves iv. iii. 291 At one of the little tea-tables..Miss Elver..was eating chocolate éclairs and meringues, messily, with an expression of rapture on her cream-smeared face.
1927 C. Mackenzie Vestal Fire i. iii You knew that the éclairs of the Villa Amabile would effuse authentic cream and not discharge stale custard like those dreadful waistless middle-aged éclairs you had met in some houses.
1956 C. Spry Cookery Bk. xxix. 866 Pipe out in finger or éclair shapes on to lightly greased baking-sheets.
1969 H. MacInnes Salzburg Connection xi. 154 Have a chocolate éclair.
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