flawn
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]flawn (plural flawns)
- (obsolete) A flan (custard-based desert)
- (obsolete) A pancake or hotcake.
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep,
To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep
References
[edit]- “flawn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]flawn
- Alternative form of flaun
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