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Waffle

2 stages from Dutch to English.

Today it means a crisp batter cake with a grid pattern, cooked between two hinged plates
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Stage 1 of 2
wafel
Dutch · medieval
"a gridded batter cake"
the Dutch word for the gridded batter cake
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waffle
English · 1700s
"a crisp, gridded batter cake"
adopted directly from Dutch
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