| 单词 | pomfret cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspomfret cake In full pomfret cake. = Pontefract n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > liquorice liquoricec1275 liquorice-stick1580 rigolice1580 glycyrize1599 Spanish liquorice1753 Pomfret?1780 Spanish juice1803 sugarallie1812 allsorts1851 sugarallie button1887 liquorice all-sorts1928 nigger baby1934 bootlace1935 liquorice bootlace1952 ?1780 W. Trotter List Sweet-meats 1/2 Pomfret-Cakes. 1781 Jrnl. Journey London to Scarborough 79 Dined. Bought some Pomfret cakes; and passed on to Harrowgate. 1826 J. J. Audubon Jrnl. 16 Oct. (1987) 284 I gave the little child by my side a few pomfrets. 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 347/2 The soil around it [sc. Pontefract]..produces..liquorice-roots, from the juice of which the medicine called pomfret-cakes is made. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 7/1 The Pontefract (or Pomfret) cake is a dainty little circular confection, into the composition of which liquorice enters largely. 1925 Confectionary Jrnl. 1 Oct. (Suppl.) p. xiv. (advt.) Bellamy's so widely known as the leaders for Liquorice All Sorts. French Almonds. Pomfret cakes. 1980 Times 12 Sept. 4/5 Yorkshire Liberals are selling The Bronte Shortcake, Pomfret cakes, and Yorkshire Liberal fudge. 2001 S. Armitage Little Green Man (2002) xxvii. 178 Pomfret cakes, Cola bottles, humbugs and barley sugars (but only in mum's handbag on long journeys, stop you getting carsick). < as lemmas |
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