flan
A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry caseA baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case.
» Flan is delicious, but its name doesn't sound at all appetising.
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4 senses(Australia, UK)A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case.
open pastry filled with fruit or custard
(Belize, US)A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
A coin die.
(informal, slang)A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.
Examples
4 sentencesFlan is delicious, but its name doesn't sound at all appetising.
Leo is making leche flan.
Mary makes a delicious flan.
That was a delicious flan!
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some usesBorrowed 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”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). Doublet of flathe.
English, from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion.
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