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soul-cake

soul-cake is the alternative form of soul cake.

Meaning of soul cake

Noun

soul cake (plural soul cakes)

  1. A cake seasoned with spices or raisins given to beggars on All Soul's Eve (Halloween).
    • All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.1981, Geoffrey Scard, Squire and tenant: life in rural Cheshire, 1760-1900, page 93

Forms of soul-cake

pluralsoul-cakes

Questions about soul-cake

What is soul-cake the alternative form of?
Soul-cake is the alternative form of soul cake.

Words near soul-cake in the dictionary

  1. soul ties
  2. soul-ache
  3. soul-ale
  4. soul-ales
  5. soul-blues
  6. soul-cake
  7. soul-cakes
  8. soul-crushing
  9. soul-crushingly
  10. soul-destroying
  11. soul-food

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