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sheath cake

sheath cake is the alternative form of sheet cake.

Meaning of sheet cake

Noun

sheet cake (countable and uncountable, plural sheet cakes)

  1. (US) A simple, flat, rectangular cake, often vanilla or sometimes chocolate.
    • Wearing a kelly green tennis dress with white espadrilles, she was carrying a sheet cake resembling a flag, blueberries and strawberries as the stars and stripes arranged across a layer of whipped cream.2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Forms of sheath cake

pluralsheath cakes

Origin of sheath cake

Alteration of sheet cake, possibly because in some Southern accents sheet sounds like shit. First attested in the mid or late twentieth century.

Questions about sheath cake

What is sheath cake the alternative form of?
Sheath cake is the alternative form of sheet cake.

Words near sheath cake in the dictionary

  1. sheat-fish
  2. sheat-fishes
  3. sheatfish
  4. sheatfishes
  5. sheath
  6. sheath cake
  7. sheath cakes
  8. sheath dress
  9. sheath dresses
  10. sheath knife
  11. sheath knives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheath cake (page history and authors); sheet cake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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