| 单词 | rout cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrout cake rout cake n. a rich cake of a type originally served at routs (in sense 8). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion rout cake1782 1782 Morning Post 5 Nov. Fruits, Ices, Jellies, Rout-cakes, and all sorts of Confectionary, &c. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 21 He managed a couple of plates full of strawberries and cream, and twenty-four little rout cakes. 1873 M. E. Braddon Lucius Davoren I. Prol. ii Think of the macaroons and rout-cakes we have trampled under our heels. 1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman viii. 125 The housekeeper and the steward..depended on Miss Morville..to advise on the number of rout-cakes it would be proper to bake. 2005 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 14 July t9 Join ‘Tea with Jane Austen’ author Kim Wilson..for a British 19th-century four-course tea, including Bath buns, rout cakes, strawberry ice cream and loose-leaf teas. < as lemmas |
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