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See definition of flake
1‘flakes of pastry’
sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, peeling
chip, shard, scale, crumb, grain, speck, spillikin
fragment, scrap, shred, bit, particle
Scottish skelf
technical spall, lamina
1‘the paint on the door was flaking’
peel off, peel, chip, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers
technical desquamate, exfoliate