| 单词 | soul cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul cake soul cake n. English regional (chiefly northern and western) (now historical) a small cake or bun specially prepared for All Souls' Day and typically distributed to parties of children during souling (souling n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > All Souls' soul cake1593 soul-mass cake1661 soul-mass loafa1800 1593 P. Stubbes Motiue to Good Wks. iii. 124 To giue soule-cakes (for so they shame not to cal them) or rather foole-cakes agaynst all soules daie, for the redemption of all christen soules, as they blasphemously speake. a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 23 There is an old Rhythm or saying, A Soule-cake, a Soule-cake, Have mercy on all Christen soules for a Soule-cake. 1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. II. 325 The practice in some Parts of Lancashire, and Cheshire, on the second of November, to set on a Table-Board a high Heap of Soul-Cakes. 1745 tr. P. Mussard Conformity between Anc. & Mod. Ceremonies p. xx It is usual for the Poor, up on All Souls Day, to go from one Village to another begging Soul Cakes, which are freely dispersed by many good Protestants. 1862 Monthly Packet Dec. 662 Soul Cakes are no longer provided. 1896 P. H. Ditchfield Old Eng. Customs 167 On All Souls' Day..it is still customary for children to go ‘a-souling’, and soul-cakes are still offered and eaten in Shropshire on this day. 1993 M. E. Hynes Compan. to Cal. 163/2 People went from door to door..and begged for ‘soul cakes’... This is how the custom of trick-or-treat probably started. < as lemmas |
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