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flan

Pronunciation: /flæn/

The English word “flan” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case.
  2. A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
  3. A coin die.
  4. A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.

verb

  1. To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.

Etymology

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”);…

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