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单词 short-cake
释义 ˈshort-cake
[short a. 20 a.]
A cake made short or crisp with butter or lard.
The specific application varies according to locality; in some English districts the word means a cake of shortbread; elsewhere in England, and in the U.S., it is applied to a rich tea-cake, and to a cake of pastry enclosing a layer of fruit.
1594Good Huswife's Handmaid 52 To make short Cakes. [1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 211 Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to Alice Short-cake vpon Allhallowmas last.]1804R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (1850) 90 There wur snaps, yell, nuts, gingerbread, shwort-keakes, and brandy.1820Irving Leg. Sleepy Hollow Sketch Bk. (1821) II. 286 Sweet cakes and short cakes.1826Mrs. Dods Cook & Housew. Man. 316 Derby Short-Cakes.1829Frugal Housew. 61. 1884 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost iii. 51 She had scarcely realized that there were so many jam-pots and tea-boxes and short-cakes to be seen together anywhere in the wide world.1902Strand Mag. Jan. 69/2 We are promised to-day a Strawberry Shortcake.
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