Flawn

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A flan (custard-based dessert) obsolete
  2. 2
    A pancake or hotcake. obsolete

    "Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep, To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep"

Etymology

From Middle English flaun, flaon, flawn, from Old French flaon, from Late Latin fladonem, accusative of flado, from Frankish *flaþō. Doublet of flan, flathe, and flathon.

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