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bowlas

bowlas noun: round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.

Noun

bowlas pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only, slang) Round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.
    • Among the regular articles of this street-sale are "Coventrys," or three-cornered puffs with jam inside; raspberry biscuits; cinnamon biscuits; "chonkeys," or a kind of mince-meat baked in crust; Dutch butter-cakes; Jews' butter-cakes; "bowlas," or round tarts made of sugar, apple, and bread...1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work

Questions about bowlas

What does bowlas mean?
Bowlas means round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.
What part of speech is bowlas?
Bowlas is a noun.

Words near bowlas in the dictionary

  1. bowladromes
  2. Bowland
  3. Bowland Forest High
  4. Bowland Forest Low
  5. Bowlands
  6. bowlas
  7. bowlback
  8. bowlbacks
  9. Bowlby
  10. Bowlbyan
  11. Bowlbys

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