fondant
Americannoun
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fondants
plural
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a thick, creamy sugar paste, the basis of many candies.
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a candy made of this paste.
noun
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a thick flavoured paste of sugar and water, used in sweets and icings
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a sweet made of this mixture
adjective
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of fondant
1875–80; < French: literally, melting, present participle of fondre to melt, found 3
Example Sentences
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Frank fakes a coma using a hyper-realistic cake of his own body — fondant wrinkles, glossy marzipan hair, the works.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
The episode will not deprive anyone of the ultrasweet treat, a chocolate shell filled with a white-and-yellow fondant, that is available from January to April.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The spring-time, choc treats vanished - along with their gooey fondant centres - from a unit in Telford on Saturday.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023
Decorated with fondant dice, the cake represented his holiday memory of playing dice games with family.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
I watched for a few seconds while Ariana started piling the fondant back up until it looked like a mound of clay again.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
Unlike the firm fondants that I tried before, the Rococo creams have a softer, almost creamy consistency, and are circles, not ovals.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2015
There were cavaliers, sweeps, princesses, and beggar-maids, but no one attracted more notice than Fairy Queen, who instead of dancing glided about amongst the company, offering fondants and caramels from her big bonbonnière.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
His attitude to Augustus was much that of his attitude to his wife's chocolates, fondants, and crystallized violets—"Not absolutely nourishing and beneficial for you, Dearest;—but harmless, and I'll bring you a ton with pleasure".
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
The solemn lady, who might seem such a terror to ill-doers, had yet a packet of the most delicious fondants in the pocket of her bombazine gown.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
For twelve fondants make a white sauce with two soupspoons of flour and milk.
From The Belgian Cookbook by Various
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