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hardbakes

hardbakes is the plural of hardbake.

Meaning of hardbake

Noun

hardbake (countable and uncountable, plural hardbakes)

  1. A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.
    • a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlor-window1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

Questions about hardbakes

What is hardbakes the plural of?
Hardbakes is the plural of hardbake.

Words near hardbakes in the dictionary

  1. hardbacker
  2. hardbackers
  3. hardbacks
  4. hardbag
  5. hardbake
  6. hardbakes
  7. hardball
  8. hardballed
  9. hardballer
  10. hardballers
  11. hardballing

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