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Noun
flapdragon (countable and uncountable, plural flapdragons)
- (obsolete) A game in which the players take raisins out of burning brandy, and swallow them.
- Any of the raisins in this game.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.
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