strowan

Fingallian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly cognate with English strowing (“material that is strewn”).

Noun

strowan

1. A three-cornered oatmeal-cake.
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Strowan,

     A Three-corner'd Oatmeal-Cake.