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noun
A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK
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noun
A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Belize, US
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Synonyms: crème caramel
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noun
A coin die.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics
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noun
A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, slang
Topics: lifestyle
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Synonyms: Browncoat
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verb
To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
open pastry filled with fruit or custard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dessert, sweet, afters
History
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.
Across languages
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