frangipani
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Etymology
From an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name comes from frangi "breaking" + pani "bread," a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.
Noun
frangipani (countable and uncountable, plural frangipanis)
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