flatcake

An Eastern European round unleavened bread.

Noun

  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:
    • Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well. - 2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:

Forms

flatcakes