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lamingtons

lamingtons is the plural of lamington.

Meaning of lamington

Noun

lamington (plural lamingtons)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut.
    • Women were also known for their cooking skills although this was not so much in the provision of meals (which were ‘simple and wholesome’), but in the production of confectionery, ranging from scones, biscuits, sponges, cakes, etc., to such noted Australian and New Zealand delicacies as lamingtons...2000, Patrick Mullins, Chris Kynaston, “The Household Production of Subsistence Goods”, in Patrick Nicol Troy, editor, A History of European Housing in Australia: The Urban Peasant Thesis Reassessed...

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Questions about lamingtons

What is lamingtons the plural of?
Lamingtons is the plural of lamington.

Words near lamingtons in the dictionary

  1. laming
  2. lamings
  3. lamington
  4. lamington drive
  5. lamington drives
  6. lamingtons
  7. laminid
  8. laminids
  9. laminiferous
  10. laminiform
  11. laminin

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