fondant
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]19th century. Unadapted borrowing from French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfɒndənt/, /fɒnˈdɒnt/, /fɒ̃ˈdɒ̃/, /fɔ̃ˈdɒ̃/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒnt
Noun
[edit]fondant (countable and uncountable, plural fondants)
- (usually uncountable) A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies.
- 2011, David Jones, Candy Making For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- To produce most types of fondant, you cook sugar, corn syrup, and water and beat the cooled mixture into a creamy paste. You may find a fondant recipe that includes other ingredients, but the three primary ingredients are the ones listed here.
- (countable) A candy or cake filled with such a preparation.
- 2005, Georgina Campbell, Irish Country House Cooking: The Blue Book Recipe Collection, page 62:
- At Chapter One, these chocolate fondants are served restaurant-style with a crème brulée ravioli and an unusual basil ice cream as well as the warm sauce given.
- (food) A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine.
- 2012, Kathryn Williams, Pizza, Love, and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN, page 182:
- Stan made a heroic attempt at a tiered cinnamon cake with a rolled fondant icing that came out gray and tore when he draped it over the cake.
- (usually uncountable) Fondue.
- fondant chocolate
- fondant cheese
- 2010, Paul Karr, Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, →ISBN:
- Start with a Cortland apple salad, beets with goat cheese fondant, […]
- (usually uncountable) The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion.
- (slang) Facial makeup (cosmetics), when used excessively.
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]flavored sugar preparation
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Further reading
[edit]- fondant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Fondant on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Category:Fondant au chocolat on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fondant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fondant m or n (plural fondants, diminutive fondantje n)
- (Netherlands) fondant (sugary substance)
- (Belgium) dark chocolate
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fondant
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fondant
- Synonym of fondantti
Usage notes
[edit]- Finnish and English "fondant" do not mean same things.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of fondant (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | fondant | fondantit | |
genitive | fondantin | fondantien | |
partitive | fondantia | fondanteja | |
illative | fondantiin | fondanteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | fondant | fondantit | |
accusative | nom. | fondant | fondantit |
gen. | fondantin | ||
genitive | fondantin | fondantien | |
partitive | fondantia | fondanteja | |
inessive | fondantissa | fondanteissa | |
elative | fondantista | fondanteista | |
illative | fondantiin | fondanteihin | |
adessive | fondantilla | fondanteilla | |
ablative | fondantilta | fondanteilta | |
allative | fondantille | fondanteille | |
essive | fondantina | fondanteina | |
translative | fondantiksi | fondanteiksi | |
abessive | fondantitta | fondanteitta | |
instructive | — | fondantein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “fondant”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]fondant
Adjective
[edit]fondant (feminine fondante, masculine plural fondants, feminine plural fondantes)
- melting
- melt in the mouth
- (heraldry) stooping, as for prey; describes an eagle, falcon, etc. flying downward
Noun
[edit]fondant m (plural fondants)
- fondant (all senses)
Further reading
[edit]- “fondant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fondant m or n (feminine singular fondantă, masculine plural fondanți, feminine and neuter plural fondante)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | fondant | fondantă | fondanți | fondante | |||
definite | fondantul | fondanta | fondanții | fondantele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | fondant | fondante | fondanți | fondante | |||
definite | fondantului | fondantei | fondanților | fondantelor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fondant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fondant m (plural fondants)
- fondant (confectionery)
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