[flan], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a baked dish consisting of an open-topped pastry case with a savoury or sweet filling
(e.g: an egg and bacon flan)

- a disc of metal such as one from which a coin is made


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Origin:
mid 19th century: from French (originally denoting a round cake) from Old French flaon, from medieval Latin flado, fladon-, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlade ‘custard’