clafoutis
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French clafoutis.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editclafoutis (uncountable)
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editDialectal, from Old French claufir (“to hold in place with nails”), because the cherries look like nails in the cake, from Latin clavo (“nail”) figere (“to fix”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editclafoutis m (plural clafoutis)
Descendants
edit- English: clafoutis
Further reading
edit- “clafoutis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- clafoutis on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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