Naples biscuit

noun

Naples biscuit

noun

1

Historical A type of biscuit flavoured with rosewater.

After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 66:

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