flatcake

flatcake (plural flatcakes)

1. An Eastern European round unleavened bread.
   • 1987, Vladimir Sokolov, “The Baker's House”, in Soviet Life, page 45:

     There is nothing like the delicious aroma of a freshly baked Uzbek flatcake just out of the tandyr ( a round clay oven ) .

   • 2012, Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, The Garlic Ballads:

     Reluctantly she took the rolled flatcake, but waited until he had begun eating his before taking her first tentative bite.

   • 2013, Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer:

     Women are paid 4 francs and given a flatcake as well.

   • 2014, C. J. Brightley, Honor's Heir:

     The meat and flatcake tasted only like delicious meat and flatcake, and I felt a bit guilty as I finished it.

   • 2017, Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly:

     [I] snatch a flatcake out of the hands of a peasant woman's little boy.