单词 | grooms cake |
释义 | groom's caken.α. 1800s– groom's cake, 1800s– grooms cake, 2000s– grooms' cake (nonstandard). β. 1800s– groom cake. U.S. A richly or elaborately decorated cake which is served at a wedding and is presented to or symbolizes the groom. Opposed to bride's cake.The groom's cake is typically a fruitcake or chocolate cake, while the bride's cake is typically decorated with white icing. The custom of having separate bride's and groom's cakes is now usually associated with the American South. ΚΠ 1859 Evansville (Indiana) Daily Jrnl. 17 Mar. Two superb cakes..graced the center of the table. One was the bride's cake... The other was the groom's cake. 1888 Goshen (Indiana) Times 23 Feb. 8/3 At one end of the festal banquet table stood the bride's cake, decorated with the name of the bride in large white characters, while at the other extreme stood the groom's cake, emblazoned appropriately with Baker–Irwin and the date. 1922 Washington Post 1 July 10/4 The cooks had to throw away the chicken a la king.., and as for the bride's cake and the groom's cake, nobody even dreams what has become of them. 1995 M. Riley Journey's End xvi. 167 She had made a rich, dark fruit cake saturated with rum and brandy. ‘The groom's cake,’ she announced. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 June d3/2 Grocery chains also are doing more groom's cakes, which tend to be more playful and nontraditional. Recent favorites included a New York Jets football helmet for a fan and a sculpted deer head for a hunting enthusiast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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