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ECLAIR

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é⋅clair

  [ey-klair, i-klair, ey-klair]
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–noun
a finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, custard, or pastry cream, often coated with icing.
Origin:
1860–65; < F: lit., lightning (flash), OF esclair, n. deriv. of esclairier to light, flash < VL *exclariāre, for L exclārāre, equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + clārāre to make bright, deriv. of clārus clear
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é·clair   (ā-klâr', ā'klâr')   


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n.  An elongated pastry filled with custard or whipped cream and usually iced with chocolate.

[French, from Old French esclair, lightning, from esclairier, to light up, from Vulgar Latin *exclāriāre, from Latin exclārāre : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + clārus, clear; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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eclair 
1861, from Fr. éclair, lit. "lightning," from O.Fr. esclair, from esclairare "to light up, make shine," ult. from L. exclarare "light up, illumine," from ex- "out" + clarus "clear." The sense is perhaps the "lightness" of the confection.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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