bridecake
nounEtymology From bride + cake.
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Archaic Synonym of wedding cake.
- This day my Julia thou must make For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake: Knead but the Dow, and it will be To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee: Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice, And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:
- But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!1860, Mary Theresa Vidal, chapter 15, in Bengala, Or, Some Time Ago, volume 1, London: John W. Parker & Son, pages 193–194:
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- Mr. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odor of cupboard.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 3, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
- The Glacier des Bois is no more. Of that of our days is left a little white tongue of ice showing in the blank bed. . . . But the saddest of all is Mont Blanc itself from here—it is, to what it was, as a mere whitewashed wall to a bridecake.1874, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 12 October, 1874, in Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, p. 107
- He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late— And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad— He could only bake Bridecake—for which, I may state, No materials were to be had.1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the First. The Landing.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC: