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wine cake

wine cake noun: any of various types of cake made with wine as an ingredient.

Noun

wine cake (plural wine cakes)

  1. Any of various types of cake made with wine as an ingredient.
    • “Where you bought those nice wine cakes, lady?” Darlene asked Mrs. Reilly. “They're nice and juicy.”1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN
    • Pause with me for a moment in memory lane before we dash into recipes for several of my favorite wine cakes.1983, The Vineyard Almanac & Wine Gazetteer, page 36

Forms of wine cake

pluralwine cakes

Questions about wine cake

What does wine cake mean?
Wine cake means any of various types of cake made with wine as an ingredient.
What part of speech is wine cake?
Wine cake is a noun.
What is the plural of wine cake?
The plural of wine cake is wine cakes.

Words near wine cake in the dictionary

  1. wine biscuits
  2. wine bottle
  3. wine bottleful
  4. wine bottles
  5. wine bottlesful
  6. wine cake
  7. wine cakes
  8. wine cave
  9. wine caves
  10. wine cellar
  11. wine cellars

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