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flapper pie

flapper pie noun: a vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).

flapper pie: a vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan)
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Noun

flapper pie (countable and uncountable, plural flapper pies)

  1. A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).
    • She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.1978, Robert Kroetsch, What the Crow Said, The University of Alberta Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66
    • Maybe we ought to compare notes on a long day, have a coffee, maybe try some flapper pie.2003, Robert Currie, Teaching Mr. Cutler, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 155

Examples of flapper pie in a sentence

  • Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.2009, Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky, Greystone Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30:
  • Come up sometime and I’ll treat you to poutine and some flapper pie.2015, Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg, The Scam (A Fox and O’Hare Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242:
  • Now, put on your apron, tie back your hair, and grab your mixing bowls: it’s time for some butter and brown sugar—let’s make us some flapper pie!2016, Karlynn Johnston, Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky: A Modern Baker’s Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts, Appetite, →ISBN:

Forms of flapper pie

pluralflapper pies

Questions about flapper pie

What does flapper pie mean?
Flapper pie means a vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).
How do you use flapper pie in a sentence?
Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.
What part of speech is flapper pie?
Flapper pie is a noun.
What is the plural of flapper pie?
The plural of flapper pie is flapper pies.

Words near flapper pie in the dictionary

  1. flapped outfall
  2. flapped outfalls
  3. flapper
  4. flapper board
  5. flapper boards
  6. flapper pie
  7. flapper pies
  8. flapper skate
  9. flapper skates
  10. flapper valve
  11. flapper valves

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