| 单词 | christmas cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChristmas cake Christmas cake n. chiefly British and Irish English (rare before late 18th cent.) a cake baked specially to be eaten at Christmas; esp. a rich fruitcake, typically flavoured with brandy, whisky, or another spirit, and covered in marzipan and icing.In quot. 1533: = Twelfth-cake n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > Christmas Christmas cake1533 yule-cake1820 black cake1916 vinarterta1936 pandoro1950 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere viii. p. cccccv What a ioye he maketh, as he were euyn made a kynge by the fyndynge of a bene in a chrystmas cake. 1771 J. Brown Gen. Hist. Christian Church I. ii. iv. 177 The seventy-ninth [canon of the Quinisext Council] discharges the making or giving of Christmas cakes [Gk. σεμίδαλῖν], in representation of the Virgin's lying in of our Saviour. 1787 S. Hoole Edward i. xxiv. 14 Together had they shared their Christmas cake, Their weekly stipend spent, and conned the self-same book. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 183 Beating of eggs, sorting of currants, grating of spices, compounding of Christmas cakes, chopping up of materials for mince-pies, and solemnizing of other culinary rites. 2005 S. Duncan Adultery for Beginners xix. 274 In the afternoon she'd try to make a Christmas cake. < as lemmas |
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