[1485–95; ‹ F, dial. var. of massepain, marcepain ‹ It marzapane, orig. sugar-candy box, perh. ‹ Ar mawthabān a seated king]This word is first recorded in the period 1485–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: infancy, invade, reject, resonance, slant