marchpane

[ mahrch-peyn ]

noun

1. marzipan.

marchpane

/ ˈmɑːtʃˌpeɪn /

noun

1. an archaic word for marzipan

Word History and Origins

Origin of marchpane¹

1485–95; < French, dialectal variant of massepain, marcepain < Italian marzapane, originally sugar-candy box, perhaps < Arabic mawthabān a seated king

Word History and Origins

Origin of marchpane¹

C15: from French

Example Sentences

One day she and I were in the kitchen, watching Mandy make marchpane.

From Literature

Among other eccentricities, Murray had taken against “marzipan”, preferring to spell it “marchpane”, and decreed that the adjective “African” should not be included, on the basis that it was not really a word.

From The Guardian

Shops have been 280 promptly opened for a holiday sale of the Toledo specialties—arabesqued swords and daggers, every variety of Damascened wares, and marchpane in form of mimic hams, fish, and serpents.

From Project Gutenberg

"A marchpane, that Englishwoman," interrupted Swidwicki; "but her maid has more electricity in her."

From Project Gutenberg

And only think, last of all came ice-cream doves sitting in a nest made of sugar, upon eggs of marchpane!

From Project Gutenberg