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flawn Obs. exc. arch.|flɔːn|
Forms: 3–7, 9 flaun(e, (4 flaunne), 5–7 flawn(e, 8–9 flawn.
[a. OF. flaon (Fr. flan) of same meaning:—early med.L. fladōn-em (It. fiadone honeycomb), a. OHG. flado flat cake (MHG. vlade, mod.Ger. fladen) = Du. vlade, vla pancake:—WGer. *flaþon- (see flathe): by many scholars regarded as cognate with Gr. πλάθανον cake-mould, πλατύς broad.]
A kind of custard or cheese-cake, made in various ways. Also, a pancake. Prov. as flat as a flawn.
c1300Havelok 644 Pastees and flaunes. c1390Form of Cury (1780) 74 Take hony clarified and flaunne. c1400Rom. Rose 7044 With tartes, or..With deynte flawnes, brode and flat. c1440Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 452 A flaune of Almayne. 1576Turberv. Venerie 188 Master Raynard will be content with butter, cheese, creame, flaunes, and custardes. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 470, I love such dinners as Milkmeats, Flawns, Custards, Cheesecakes. 1721–1800Bailey s.v., As flat as a Flawn. 1820Scott Abbot xxxiii, He that is hanged in May will eat no flaunes in Midsummer. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Jackd. Rheims, The flawns and the custards had all disappear'd.
b. transf. of a flat cap.
1602Dekker Satiro-mastix H iv, Cast off that blew coate, away with that flawne. |
