1. [countable] a type of hard dry biscuit that is not sweetTopics

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2. [uncountable, countable] a sweet made from a flat dry piece of melted sugar, often with nuts inTopics
Word Originlate Middle English: alteration of Old French craquelin, from Middle Dutch krākelinc, from krāken ‘to crack’.

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