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flawns

flawns is the plural of flawn.

Meaning of flawn

Noun

flawn (plural flawns)

  1. (obsolete) A flan (custard-based dessert)
  2. (obsolete) A pancake or hotcake.
    • Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep,
      To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...

Questions about flawns

What is flawns the plural of?
Flawns is the plural of flawn.

Words near flawns in the dictionary

  1. flawing
  2. flawless
  3. flawlessly
  4. flawlessness
  5. flawn
  6. flawns
  7. flaws
  8. flawsome
  9. flawter
  10. flawtered
  11. flawtering

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