| Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish. Thesaurus Entries Danish pastry, French pastry, baklava, buckwheat cake, cheese blintz, chocolate eclair, cream puff, crepe, dowdy, eclair, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, palacsinta, pancake, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent, waffle |