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flatcake

flatcake noun: an Eastern European round unleavened bread.

Noun

flatcake (plural flatcakes)

  1. An Eastern European round unleavened bread.
    • There is nothing like the delicious aroma of a freshly baked Uzbek flatcake just out of the tandyr ( a round clay oven ) .1987, Vladimir Sokolov, “The Baker's House”, in Soviet Life, page 45
    • Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.2012, Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, The Garlic Ballads

Examples of flatcake in a sentence

  • Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well.2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:
  • The meat and flatcake tasted only like delicious meat and flatcake, and I felt a bit guilty as I finished it.2014, C. J. Brightley, Honor's Heir:
  • [I] snatch a flatcake out of the hands of a peasant woman's little boy.2017, Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly:

Forms of flatcake

pluralflatcakes

Questions about flatcake

What does flatcake mean?
Flatcake means an Eastern European round unleavened bread.
How do you use flatcake in a sentence?
Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well.
What part of speech is flatcake?
Flatcake is a noun.
What is the plural of flatcake?
The plural of flatcake is flatcakes.

Words near flatcake in the dictionary

  1. flatbows
  2. flatbread
  3. flatbreads
  4. flatbreaking
  5. Flatbush
  6. flatcake
  7. flatcakes
  8. flatcap
  9. flatcaps
  10. flatcar
  11. flatcars

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