A little coffin (eclair) with your meal?

[Laurence Horn]

>At 10:46 AM 5/9/00 -0400, Barry Popik wrote:
>
>--"A condom is a cosmetic?"
>
>If the Poles can get away with calling it a "preservative" I guess the
>Czechs are allowed to call it a "cosmetic."

I'd guess that the former is borrowed from the French préservatif.

Larry