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Fingallian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly cognate with English strowing (“material that is strewn”).
Noun
[edit]strowan
- A three-cornered oatmeal-cake.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Strowan,
- A Three-corner'd Oatmeal-Cake.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):