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Q. Gaufre?

/ɡofʁ/ From Old French walfre, from Frankish *wafel or Middle Dutch wafel, from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).

Compare English waffle.

From Louisiana or Canadian French, from sense 1 (“honeycomb”), said to be reference to gopher burrows.

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