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Banbury A town in Oxfordshire, England, formerly noted for the number and zeal of its Puritan inhabitants, still for its cakes.
a1535Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) II. 299 (D.) Their laws, customs, ceremonies, and Banbury glosses. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 130 Bar. (to Slender) You Banbery Cheese. 1601Pasquil & Kath. iii. 178 Put off your clothes, and you are like a Banbery cheese, Nothing but paring. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair i, The reverend elder, you told me of, your Banbury man. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii. (1668) 100 To make Banbury Cakes. a1848Marryat R. Reefer xiii, Had they not trustingly eschewed banbury-cakes. 1863Sala Capt. Dang. I. i. 15, I did ever hate your sanctimonious Banbury-man. |