| 单词 | soul-mass cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoul-mass cake soul-mass cake n. English regional (northern) now historical a cake given to the poor on All Souls' Day; (as a mass noun) a quantity of this. Compare soul cake n. at soul n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > cake > [noun] molea1547 simnel1599 soul-mass cake1661 simlin1836 Haman's ears1846 Shrewsbury simnel1883 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 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Soul-masse-Cakes, are certain oaten cakes, which some of the wealthier sort of persons in Lancashire [1674 adds Herefordshire, &c.] use still to give the poor on All-Souls day. 1837 W. Thornber Hist. Blackpool 92 The beggar at the door craving an awmas, or saumas cake, (soulmass cake). 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 254 It may be that the custom of eating tharf-cakes, which obtains in Sheffield on the 5th of November, has reference to the soul mass cake formerly eaten on the Feast of All Souls and on that day distributed to the poor. 1991 J. Stead in C. A. Wilson Trad. Food E. & W. of Pennines vi. 162 Soul-mass-cakes were baked and given to the poor as an act of grace which was believed to alleviate the sufferings of the souls of the dead. In Lancashire soul-mass-cake was ‘a kind of oatcakes’, and in York it was a kind of parkin. < as lemmas |
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