flamiche
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "North of Paris, in villages around the cities of Amiens and Lille, traditional favorites include the tarte au Maroilles, a rich, briochelike dough topped with a pungent local cow's milk cheese, and flamiche, a dense, full-flavored vegetable tart filled with a blend of leeks, cheese, eggs and ham."
- "I start with a delicious, fluffy flamiche, a round tart of goat cheese and leeks from northern France."
- "Leeks are sometimes sautéed in dark, abbey-style beers, especially as an ingredient in the flamiche. This is a rich, cheesy, counterpart to the quiche of Lorraine, south across the border in France. The finest of flamiches is cooked over a wood fire. A flamiche festival is held in early September in the town of Dinant, near Namur, on the river Meuse, but this lovely town is worth visiting at any time of year."
- "Everyone becomes addicted to my tomato flamiche, my far breton made with figs and also my Croatian pepper biscuits."
Etymology
From French flamiche.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: flamiche