† flathen.
Obsolete.
1. = flathon n., flawn n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard
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dariole?a1400
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custard pie1729
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pudding1896
crème renversée1912
leche flan1927
galaktoboureko1950
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c1450 Interl. Gloss. John de Garlande in Wright Voc. 127 Flaones fartos, flathen ystuffyd.
2. A name for the ray or skate.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of family Rajidae (ray)
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sea-cow1722
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate)
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 164/2 Flathe, or flathe [sic], fysche (flay, or flacch, fysch.) (R)agadies.
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 334 Item, the same day my mastyr paid for a fflathe..xiij. d.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 127 The fishe called in Latin pastinaca marina, whych is lyke vnto a flath.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. x. f. 110v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Oure Chaites, Maidens, Kingsones, Flathe and Thornebacke.
1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing 8 Soals, Thorneback, Floith [sic], Scate, Brett [etc.].
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