Meaning of flapper pie | Babel Free

Definitions

A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.”

“Maybe we ought to compare⟳ notes on a long day, have⟳ a coffee, maybe try⟳ some flapper pie.”

“Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.”

“Come⟳ up sometime and I’ll treat⟳ you to poutine and some flapper pie.”

“Now, put⟳ on your apron, tie back your hair, and grab⟳ your mixing bowls: it’s time for some butter and brown sugar—let’s make⟳ us some flapper pie!”

“People would come⟳ to the food booth at the Livelong Fair day and specifically ask⟳ for Mrs. Binns’s apple or flapper pies.”

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