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soul cakes

soul cakes is the plural 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

Questions about soul cakes

What is soul cakes the plural of?
Soul cakes is the plural of soul cake.

Words near soul cakes in the dictionary

  1. soul bells
  2. soul blues
  3. soul brother
  4. soul brothers
  5. soul cake
  6. soul cakes
  7. soul food
  8. soul foods
  9. soul fragment
  10. soul fragments
  11. soul house

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