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Flan
Definitions
- 1 A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. Australia, UK
"The menu includes a number of excellent fish dishes such as the […] broccoli flan."
- 2 A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly. informal, slang
"(some) Firefly flans call themselves Browncoats (Remember, the hot movie from Universal is out this September! :)"
- 3 open pastry filled with fruit or custard wordnet
- 4 A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries. Belize, US
- 5 A coin die.
- 1 To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.
Etymology
Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some uses (in reference to Spanish/Latin American flans) later from Spanish flan (itself from the French), both from Old French flaon (whence also Middle English flaon, flaun (“pie; cake”)), from Late Latin fladō (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). Doublet of flathe. Although the -n is generally believed to derive from the Late Latin accusative form (fladonem) of fladō (“flat cake”), it might alternatively derive from an inflected form of the Frankish word (such as the Frankish accusative *flaþan, or the like). For a similar case, see garden.
English, from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion.
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