fondant

Meanings

Noun

• A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies.
• A candy or cake filled with such a preparation.
• 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.
• Fondue.
• The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion.

Adjective

• Stooping, as for prey: said of an eagle, a falcon, etc.

Origin

• 19th century. From French fondant, from fondre, from Latin fundere.