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bride-cake

bride-cake is the alternative form of bridecake.

Meaning of bridecake

Noun

bridecake (countable and uncountable, plural bridecakes)

  1. (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
    Synonyms:
    wedding cake

Forms of bride-cake

pluralbride-cakes

Questions about bride-cake

What is bride-cake the alternative form of?
Bride-cake is the alternative form of bridecake.

Words near bride-cake in the dictionary

  1. bride's flowers
  2. bride's maid
  3. bride's maids
  4. bride-ale
  5. bride-ales
  6. bride-cake
  7. bride-cakes
  8. bride-gift
  9. bride-gifts
  10. bride-price
  11. bride-prices

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