| 单词 | mothering-cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmothering-cake mothering-cake n. English regional (western) a cake given by children to their parents on Mothering Sunday. ΚΠ 1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 114 Zee Dundry's Peak Lucks like a shuggard Motherin-Cake. 1887 F. T. Havergal Herefordshire Words 23 It is still the custom to use or send away mothering cakes, which are made specially at Hereford and towns in this county in large quantities. 1902 S. S. Buckman in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 174/2 [Gloucestershire] Mothering-cake [a cake given by children to their parents on Mid-Lent Sunday]. < as lemmas |
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