rout cake
rout cake noun: a kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
Noun
rout cake (countable and uncountable, plural rout cakes)
- A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
- twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- I have visions of roast partridge and rout cakes, but instead we are given a quinoa salad and stone bass. Delicious, albeit not very Austenesque.2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend (Travel section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
Forms of rout cake
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Questions about rout cake
- What does rout cake mean?
- Rout cake means a kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
- What part of speech is rout cake?
- Rout cake is a noun.
- What is the plural of rout cake?
- The plural of rout cake is rout cakes.
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