flawn
English edit
Etymology edit
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.
Noun edit
flawn (plural flawns)
- (obsolete) A flan (custard-based desert)
- (obsolete) A pancake or hotcake.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep,
To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep
References edit
- “flawn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
flawn
- Alternative form of flaun