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Banbury cake

noun

  1. a small, oval pastry containing currants, candied peel, honey, spices, etc., usually with three parallel cuts across the top.


Banbury cake

noun

  1. a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Banbury cake1

1605–15; named after Banbury, where it was made
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Example Sentences

His linen and his neckcloth were as white as snow, his shoes, his silk stockings, his coat, his waistcoat, and his breeches as black as jet; his hat was in the form of a Banbury cake; the buckles in his shoes and at his knees were large and resplendent; and a gold-headed cane was in his hand.

You will do me the honour, I hope, my dear young lady, of entering my house and partaking of a glass of my gooseberry-wine and of eating a piece of Banbury cake.

I can but offer you some gooseberry-wine and a piece of Banbury cake, but I am sure you are very welcome.

The Speaker however decided that Sir Frederick was entitled to first cut at the Banbury cake.

Good things to engross, Near Banbury cross Where Tommy shall go on the nag, He makes no mistake, Buy a Banbury Cake, Books, Pictures, and Banbury Shag.

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