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flatcake en · NOUN

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1. An Eastern European round unleavened bread.
   • Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well. 2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:
   • [I] snatch a flatcake out of the hands of a peasant woman's little boy. 2017, Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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