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flaw
early 14c., "snowflake, spark of fire," from O.N.
flaga
"stone slab, flake" (see
flagstone
); sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1580s, first of character, later (c.1600) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.
