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marzipan, marchpane|ˌmɑːzɪˈpæn, ˈmɑːtʃpeɪn|
Forms: α. 5, 8 marchpayne, 6 marche payne, -pane, (martspaine, martchpane), march pain, (-payine, -pine), 7 marchpayn, (6, 9 marchpan), 6–7 marchpaine, 6– marchpane. β. 6–7 mazapane. γ. 6 marzepaine, 9 marzipan, (marzapane, marcipan).
[Occurs as F. massepain (in 16th c. marcepain), It. marzapane, Sp. mazapan, Pg. maçapão, Ger. marzipan (martzepan 1521, glossing panis marcius), Du. marsepein (marcepain in 1486), Da., Sw. marsipan; the Eng. forms come from various continental sources. In recent times the sweetmeat has been known chiefly as imported from Germany; hence the Ger. form marzipan has greater currency than the traditional Eng. form marchpane.
The word is believed to have come into the other Rom. langs. from Italian. Its etymology is obscure. What seems to be the same word occurs in various Rom. forms and in med.L. with the senses ‘small box’, ‘a certain mediæval weight’, and ‘a mediæval coin’. Kluyver, in Zeitschr. f. deutsche Wortforschung July 1904, ingeniously tries to prove that the last-mentioned sense is the source of all the others. He identifies the word with med.L. matapanus, a Venetian coin bearing a figure of Christ on a throne (Du Cange), and suggests that it represents Arab. mauthabān ‘a king that sits still’ (Lane), which he conjectures to have been used by Saracens as a derisive name for this coin.]
1. a. A kind of confectionery composed of a paste of pounded almonds, sugar, etc., made up into small cakes or moulded into ornamental forms.
α1556Withals Dict. (1568) 49 b/2 Deyntie dysshes as marche payne, tartes, &c., Bellaria. 1587Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 148 Marchpaine wrought with no small curiositie. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 9. ? 1606 Drayton Poems Lyr. & Past., Ecl. iv. E 1 b, The silke well couth she twist and twine, And make the fine Marchpine. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 93 To make the best March⁓pane, take the best Jordan Almonds. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., The Paste in that which they call the Royal March-Pane. 1848J. Oxenford tr. Goethe's Autobiog. (Bohn) I. 64 The tarts, biscuits, marchpane and sweet wine. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 151/2 Marchpane and other cakes and confectionery made with honey. 1901Board of Trade Jrnl. 11 July 84 The edible article known variously as ‘march⁓pane’, ‘marzipan’, or ‘marcipan’, which consists of.. flour, sugar, almonds, &c., made in fancy forms..is..dutiable.
β1598Florio, Pasta,..marchpane, or mazapane.
γ1866Howells Venet. Life xviii. 278 A cake called marzapane. 1897Daily News 23 Nov. 2/1 The stuff..smelt very much like the sweetmeat called marzipan.
b. A cake or shaped piece of this composition.
α1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 587 A march payne garnysshed with dyuerse fygures of aungellys. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 13 The Duke sent to the Pilgryms gret basons full of Marchepanys. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke vii. 25 Wylde honey and locustes hathe he preferred before the martspaines and other swete delycates of kynges. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 585 Marchpanes are made of verie little flower, but with addition of greater quantitie of Filberds, Pine Nuts, Pistaces, Almonds, and rosed Sugar. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tourte, For a Sugar'd Pan⁓pie..take five or six Biskets, Marchpanes, or Macaroons [etc.]. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 288 Begin by covering the whole of the base with a layer of marchpans. 1882C. M. Yonge Unknown to Hist. I. 254 All the ladies and serving women were called on to concoct pasties.., cakes and march⁓panes. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 151/2 Polish Honey Cakes, Marchpanes, and Chocolate.
β1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 106 A certain kinde of condite which is called Pasta Regia or a Mazapane.
γ1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 128 To feede of tartes and marzepaines, the meates of denty mouthed persones.
†c. fig. Chiefly as the type of something delicious or exquisite. Obs.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. 5 Rayling was the Ypocras of the drunken rimester: and Quipping the Marche⁓pane of the madde libeller. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, Mor. I was then esteemd―. Phi. The very March⁓pane of the Court, I warrant? 1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb iv. iii, You are very curious of your hand... Let me see it?—Ay marry, here's a hand of march-pane. a1652Brome City Wit iv. ii, You have your Kickshaws, your Players Marchpaines; all shew and no meat.
2. attrib.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1355/1 A verie statelie tragedie named Dido, wherein the quænes banket..was liuelie described in a marchpaine patterne. 1602Sir H. Platt Delights for Ladies (1611) B 4 b, To make an excellent Marchpane paste to print off in molds for banqueting dishes. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle vi. 2771 Candid eringoes, and rich marchpaine stuffe. 1891‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley iv. 31 Marzipan bon-bons.
†b. quasi-adj. with the sense: Dainty, superfine.
1598–9B. Jonson Case is Altered iv. iv, A march paine wench. 1640H. Glapthorne Wit in Constable v, What would you've done With two such March-pane husbands? 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccclxvi, Let not these March⁓pane follies Dull your Sence To better rellish.
Hence † march panado v. [see panada], trans. to mould, after the manner of marchpane.
1650B. Discolliminium 46 The constitution of my body was a cleare transparent Marmulate..March Panado'd into the shape of a strait Gentleman.
Add:3. transf. or fig. A layer, filling, or covering, esp. one which resembles marzipan in colour or texture, or which conceals an underlying structure.
1945Hansard Commons 17 Oct. 1223 You only have to look at the fretful fronts stretching along the great roads leading from London—belonging to what I think one cynic called the ‘marzipan period’—to see the monstrous crimes committed against aesthetics by..speculators. 1981Event 9–15 Oct. 29/1 Marzipan, n. (motor trade). The filler used to patch up bodywork damaged by a crash or corrosion. 1989Mod. Painters Autumn 111/1 Yet Mr. Hutchinson condemns post-modernism as ‘Bimbo architecture’ and so much marzipan over honest concrete frames.
4. Special Comb. marzipan layer or set Stock Market slang, the stockbroking executives ranking immediately below the partners in a firm.
1984Economist 17 Nov. 72/3 And what of the so-called marzipan set, the layer of managers too junior to get the icing but too senior for the cake crumbs? Will they be prepared to work if they feel their future has been sold off? 1985Listener 6 June 8/3 The ‘marzipan layer’ is the bright, younger people just below the partners. 1987Observer 26 Apr. 8/3 Graduate scientists take (often non-scientific) jobs in industry and commerce. Many of the best and brightest go into the City and join the Marzipan Set (above the cake but below the icing). 1992Sunday Tel. 29 Mar. 40/4 Britain's ‘Marzipan layer’ already spend far more of their disposable income on housing and education than their German and French peers.
ˈmarzipanned ppl. a., covered with a layer of marzipan (also fig.); ˈmarzipan v. trans. (as pa. pple.).
1974R. Rendell Face of Trespass ii. 25 The large home-made Dundee, marzipanned and iced. 1986T. Barling Smoke xxii. 486 A single boa of cloud feathered out from the Buddhist temple on the high western tor, the thinning outer strands marzipanned by brazen sunlight. 1987Los Angeles Times 15 Feb. (Calendar) 88/4 Produced by that baroque prince of pop Todd Rundgren, the album is marzipaned with ornate embellishments and liberally sprinkled with quotes from the post-acid Beatles. 1994Interzone July 39/3 Just another layer of ironic icing on an already heavily-marzipanned cake. |