fondant

a fondant ("candy"), filled with fondant ("creamy sugar preparation")

a flower made from rolled fondant sheets

a frosted cake covered with ribbons made from rolled fondant sheets

19th century. From French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒndənt/, /fɒnˈdɒnt/, /fɒ̃ˈdɒ̃/, /fɔ̃ˈdɒ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

fondant (countable and uncountable, plural fondants)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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, […]

5. (usually uncountable) The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion.
6. (slang) Facial makeup (cosmetics), when used excessively.

• fondue

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The blue bird on the yellow background (towards the bottom of the shield) is fondant; the yellow bird on the blue background is montant.

fondant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc.

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• Fondant au chocolat on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowing from French fondant.

• IPA^(key): /fɔnˈdɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: fon‧dant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

fondant m or n (plural fondants, diminutive fondantje n)

1. (Netherlands) fondant (sugary substance)
2. (Belgium) dark chocolate

• fondantsuiker

< French fondant

• IPA^(key): /ˈfondɑnt/, [ˈfo̞ndɑn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -ondɑnt
• Syllabification^(key): fon‧dant

fondant

1. Synonym of fondantti

• Finnish and English "fondant" do not mean same things.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃.dɑ̃/

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fondant

1. present participle of fonder
2. present participle of fondre

fondant (feminine fondante, masculine plural fondants, feminine plural fondantes)

1. melting
2. melt in the mouth

fondant m (plural fondants)

1. fondant (all senses)

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

From French fondant.

fondant m or n (feminine singular fondantă, masculine plural fondanți, feminine and neuter plural fondante)

1. melting

• IPA^(key): /fonˈdant/ [fõn̪ˈd̪ãn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: fon‧dant

fondant m (plural fondants)

1. fondant (confectionery)