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Definition of Chocolate eclair
1. Noun. Eclair topped with chocolate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chocolate Eclair
Literary usage of Chocolate eclair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Ginger, Wood Sorrel and Sweet Cicely: Stories of Many Types, New to the by Matt Hoover (1909)
""Speaking of chocolate eclair—my young hopeful of six is very fond of that dessert.
His mother asked him what kind of dessert he would like the cook to ..."
2. Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based by Charles Baudouin (1922)
"Giving him a plate to hold, I suggested that he should see in it a chocolate Eclair.
Now, on the plate was a reproduction of Millet's celebrated picture The ..."
3. The Actor-manager by Leonard Merrick (1919)
"... chocolate eclairs, and discussing the frocks she was to wear in the part.
She was pretty enough to be attractive, even while she ate a chocolate eclair. ..."
4. The Bookman (1906)
""McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair!" was a favourite saying
of his at that time; and and doubtless there were many tale-bearers to carry ..."
5. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Spineless as a chocolate eclair. — ANON. Spineless as a jelly-fish. — IBID.
Spirit. Spirit is like the thread whereon are strung the beads or worlds of life ..."
6. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... Capus makes me laugh in the theatre not one-tenth so hard as the spectacle of
one pickle-herring clouting another over the ear with a chocolate eclair, ..."
7. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... in the letter to me he repudiated Antm the also an epigram, currently attributed
to him, that "McKinley had the backbone of a chocolate eclair. ..."
8. Dissertations by Mr. Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne (1906)
"It requires plenty iv exercise to be at its best, an' if it doesn't get enough
it loses its power until a chocolate eclair might win against it. ..."
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