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bridecake

bridecake noun: synonym of wedding cake.

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
    • But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!1860, Mary Theresa Vidal, chapter 15, in Bengala, Or, Some Time Ago, volume 1, London: John W. Parker & Son, pages 193–194
    Synonyms:
    wedding cake

Synonyms of bridecake

Forms of bridecake

pluralbridecakes
alternative formbride-cake

Origin of bridecake

From bride + cake.

Questions about bridecake

What does bridecake mean?
Bridecake means synonym of wedding cake.
What part of speech is bridecake?
Bridecake is a noun.
What is the plural of bridecake?
The plural of bridecake is bridecakes.

Words near bridecake in the dictionary

  1. bride-wealth
  2. bride-wealths
  3. brideangroom
  4. bridebed
  5. bridebeds
  6. bridecake
  7. bridecakes
  8. bridechamber
  9. bridechambers
  10. bridechilla
  11. bridechillas

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