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flaouna

flaouna noun: a kind of cheese-filled pastry eaten in Cyprus during Easter and Ramadan.

Noun

flaouna (plural flaounes)

  1. A kind of cheese-filled pastry eaten in Cyprus during Easter and Ramadan.
    • In week six, Alvin was foiled by Paul’s flaounes, then firefighter Mat fell foul of Mary’s ladyfingers in week seven.2015 October 1, Heidi Stephens, “The Great British Bake Off 2015 final – who will win?”, in The Guardian

Forms of flaouna

pluralflaounes

Origin of flaouna

Borrowed from Greek φλαούνα (flaoúna). Doublet of flan.

Questions about flaouna

What does flaouna mean?
Flaouna means a kind of cheese-filled pastry eaten in Cyprus during Easter and Ramadan.
What part of speech is flaouna?
Flaouna is a noun.
What is the plural of flaouna?
The plural of flaouna is flaounes.

Words near flaouna in the dictionary

  1. flanques
  2. flans
  3. Flansburg
  4. Flansburgs
  5. Flansy
  6. flaouna
  7. flaounes
  8. flap
  9. flap copies
  10. flap copy
  11. flap display

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