flawn

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noun

A flan (custard-based dessert)

OriginMiddle English flaun ← Old French flaon ← Late Latin fladonem →
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Meanings

nounflawn (plural flawns)

plural flawns

  1. obsoleteA flan (custard-based dessert)
  2. obsoleteA pancake or hotcake.

    Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep, To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep

    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

Origin

  1. Frankish*flaþō
  2. Late Latinfladonem
  3. Old Frenchflaon
  4. Middle Englishflaun
  5. Englishflawn

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.

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APA

flawn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flawn

MLA

“flawn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flawn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flawn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flawn.

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