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noun
A dessert cake originating in ancient Greece consisting of layered dough interwoven with cheese and honey, along with various other ingredients to suit the recipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: baking, cooking, food, lifestyle
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History
From Latin placenta (“flat cake”); the dessert is the original sense of the word placenta.
