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Shrove-cake

Shrove-cake noun: a pancake made for Shrovetide.

Noun

Shrove-cake (plural Shrove-cakes)

  1. (obsolete) A pancake made for Shrovetide.

Forms of Shrove-cake

pluralShrove-cakes

Questions about Shrove-cake

What does Shrove-cake mean?
Shrove-cake means a pancake made for Shrovetide.
What part of speech is Shrove-cake?
Shrove-cake is a noun.
What is the plural of Shrove-cake?
The plural of Shrove-cake is Shrove-cakes.

Words near Shrove-cake in the dictionary

  1. Shrove Mondays
  2. Shrove Sunday
  3. Shrove Sundays
  4. Shrove Tuesday
  5. Shrove Tuesdays
  6. Shrove-cake
  7. Shrove-cakes
  8. Shrove-tide
  9. shroved
  10. shroves
  11. Shrovetide

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