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Shrewsbury cake

Shrewsbury cake noun: a type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.

Noun

Shrewsbury cake (plural Shrewsbury cakes)

  1. A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
    • Why Brother Willfull of Salop, you may be as ſhort as a Shrewſbury Cake, if you pleaſe.1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 46
    • I bought some Shrewsbury cakes at Mr. Paul's in — Street, Covent Garden, eating some of which supported me somewhat.1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 276

Forms of Shrewsbury cake

pluralShrewsbury cakes

Questions about Shrewsbury cake

What does Shrewsbury cake mean?
Shrewsbury cake means a type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
What part of speech is Shrewsbury cake?
Shrewsbury cake is a noun.
What is the plural of Shrewsbury cake?
The plural of Shrewsbury cake is Shrewsbury cakes.

Words near Shrewsbury cake in the dictionary

  1. shrewly
  2. shrewmice
  3. shrewmouse
  4. shrews
  5. Shrewsbury
  6. Shrewsbury cake
  7. Shrewsbury cakes
  8. Shrey
  9. Shreya
  10. Shri
  11. shriek

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