flan
Americannoun
plural
flans,plural
flanes-
Spanish Cooking. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
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an open, tartlike pastry, the shell of which is baked in a bottomless band of metal flan ring on a baking sheet, removed from the ring and filled with custard, cream, fruit, etc.
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a piece of metal shaped ready to form a coin, but not yet stamped by the die.
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the metal of which a coin is made, as distinct from its design.
noun
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an open pastry or sponge tart filled with fruit or a savoury mixture
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a piece of metal ready to receive the die or stamp in the production of coins; shaped blank; planchet
Etymology
Origin of flan
1840–50; < French; Old French flaon < Late Latin fladōn-, stem of fladō < Germanic; compare Old High German flado ( German Fladen ) flat cake
Example Sentences
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Leche flan is the Filipino version of creme caramel.
From Washington Times • May 31, 2023
When Marcus Magsayo, 20, a Filipino American college student, put together a large cultural event with Filipino leche flan, he learned that his Latino friends also eat a version of the caramel dessert.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022
The comedians themselves participate in the same high-wire act, navigating precariously through new jokes like a piece of flan teetering on a Filipino sundae.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2022
Titled “Homecoming,” it featured asparagus flan with morel sauce; king salmon confit with orange-braised fennel and ikura; Iberico pork shabu shabu with ratatouille couscous; and “dueling desserts”: mother’s strawberry shortcake, son’s chocolate mousse.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2022
Mami cuts up the flan and everyone spreads out around my bed and eats happily.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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