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flatcake

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flatcake (plural flatcakes)

  1. An Eastern European round unleavened bread.
    • 1987, Vladimir Sokolov, “The Baker's House”, in Soviet Life, page 45:
      There is nothing like the delicious aroma of a freshly baked Uzbek flatcake just out of the tandyr ( a round clay oven ) .
    • 2012, Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, The Garlic Ballads:
      Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.
    • 2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:
      Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well.
    • 2014, C. J. Brightley, Honor's Heir:
      The meat and flatcake tasted only like delicious meat and flatcake, and I felt a bit guilty as I finished it.
    • 2017, Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly:
      [I] snatch a flatcake out of the hands of a peasant woman's little boy.