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mooncakes

mooncakes is the plural of mooncake.

Meaning of mooncake

Noun

mooncake (plural mooncakes)

  1. A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
    • The fifteenth Day of the eighth Moon, is ſolemniz'd by the Chineſes with great feaſting and rejoycing. […] To this purpoſe, the preceding Days they ſend to one another Preſents of little Loaves and Sugar-Cakes, which they call Yue Pim, or Moon-Cakes. They are round, but the biggeſt, which are about...1688, Gabriel Magaillans [i.e., Gabriel de Magalhães], “Of Several Other Palaces, and Some Temples Erected within the Same Enclosures”, in [anonymous], transl., A New History of China, Containing a...

Forms of mooncakes

alternative formmoon cakes
alternative formmoon-cakes

Phrases with mooncakes

Questions about mooncakes

What is mooncakes the plural of?
Mooncakes is the plural of mooncake.

Words near mooncakes in the dictionary

  1. moonbrains
  2. Moonbria
  3. moonburn
  4. moonburns
  5. mooncake
  6. mooncakes
  7. mooncalf
  8. mooncalves
  9. moonchild
  10. moonchildren
  11. moonclad

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