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wedding-cake

wedding-cake adjective: extremely ornate. Also the dated form of wedding cake.

Adjective

wedding-cake (comparative more wedding-cake, superlative most wedding-cake)

  1. (idiomatic) Extremely ornate.
    • Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried.2003, Rough Guide To Scandinavia, page 502

Also used as

wedding-cake is also the dated form of wedding cake.

Forms of wedding-cake

Adjective
comparativemore wedding-cake
superlativemost wedding-cake
Noun
pluralwedding-cakes

Origin of wedding-cake

The adjective is from wedding cake.

Questions about wedding-cake

What does wedding-cake mean?
Wedding-cake means extremely ornate.
What part of speech is wedding-cake?
Wedding-cake is an adjective.

Words near wedding-cake in the dictionary

  1. wedding tackle
  2. wedding vow
  3. wedding vows
  4. wedding waltz
  5. wedding waltzes
  6. wedding-cake
  7. wedding-cakes
  8. wedding-day
  9. wedding-days
  10. wedding-goer
  11. wedding-goers

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