flan: Meaning and Definition of

flan

1. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
2. an open, tartlike pastry, the shell of which is baked in a bottomless band of metalon a baking sheet, removed from the ring and filled with custard, cream, fruit, etc.
3. a piece of metal shaped ready to form a coin, but not yet stamped by the die.
4. the metal of which a coin is made, as distinct from its design.