| 单词 | sugar-cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar-cake sugar-cake n. a rich cake made with sugar, butter, and cream; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > rich cake spice-cake1530 sugar-cake1600 plum cake1606 butter cake1616 pound cake1743 black cake1823 Dundee cake1836 gâteau1845 fat-rascal1868 Dundee1920 Lane cake1921 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. E2 Such vile coniunctions such constructions make, That some are pois'ned with a Sugar Cake. 1716 Hesperi-neso-graphia ii. 9 This grunting Sow would sooner take, And eat a T——d than Sugar-Cake. 1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 14 Pots of conserves, sugar cakes, and such other housewifely presents as..gratify the appetites common to children. a1821 J. Keats Otho i. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 128 Who..dares to give An old lion sugar-cakes of mild reprieve? 1923 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 133/1 A demure little Mennonite maid..will invite you cordially to ‘sit up’ to a table arrayed with the wealth of cup cheese and pot cheese and sugar cakes and sauerbraten and noodles and all the rest of the savory dainties..on the menu of a Pennsylvania Dutch family. 1977 A. Wilson Strange Ride R. Kipling ii. 110 The Durbar Room at the Queen's beloved Osborne House—not a very happy sugar-cake Moghul decoration. < as lemmas |
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