éclair

• eclair

Borrowed from French éclair.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɛə/, /eɪ-/

  • Audio (Southern England); /ɪˈklɛə/:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɛɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkleː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkleə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkliə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkleɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

éclair (plural éclairs)

1. A small, chocolate-covered, creme-filled pastry puff in a general oblong shape, typically larger than the miniature French version.

• Carlie, Claire, claire, lacier

Deverbal from éclairer.

• IPA^(key): /e.klɛʁ/

• Audio:

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éclair m (plural éclairs)

1. lightning bolt
2. flash
3. sparkle
5. éclair (pastry)

   éclair au café ― coffee éclair

   éclair au chocolat ― chocolate éclair

• → 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:
  • Cyrillic script: еклер
  • Latin script: ekler
• → Spanish: éclair
• → Swedish: éclair
• → Turkish: ekler

éclair (invariable)

1. (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.

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• “éclair”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• claire, Claire

Borrowed from French éclair.

• IPA^(key): /eˈklɛr/

éclair m

1. éclair

Unadapted borrowing from French éclair.

• IPA^(key): /eˈkleɾ/ [eˈkleɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: é‧clair

éclair m

1. éclair

According 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.

Borrowed from French éclair.

éclair c

1. éclair