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plum-cake

plum-cake is the alternative form of plumcake.

Meaning of plumcake

Noun

plumcake (countable and uncountable, plural plumcakes)

  1. A cake made either with dried fruit (such as grapes, currants, raisins or prunes) or with fresh fruit.
    • Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts.1833, Parley's Magazine, volume 1, page 23

Forms of plum-cake

pluralplum-cakes

Questions about plum-cake

What is plum-cake the alternative form of?
Plum-cake is the alternative form of plumcake.

Words near plum-cake in the dictionary

  1. plum yews
  2. plum-blossom
  3. plum-blossoms
  4. plum-broth
  5. plum-broths
  6. plum-cake
  7. plum-cakes
  8. plum-color
  9. plum-colored
  10. plum-colored starling
  11. plum-colored starlings

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