Meaning of maid-of-honour tart | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“It was a terribly hot day, and yet that week’s hostess had knocked herself out making maid-of-honour tarts and jam sponge in a kitchen that must have been over one hundred degrees.”

“[…] Joan Bennet’s Forces’ Favourites were ‘Raspberry buns, rock cakes, Australian flapjacks, maid-of-honour tarts, and doughnuts.[…]’”

“It was over a maid-of-honour tart that her complacent mood took a turn for the worse – when Robert said in a low sympathetic voice, ‘How is Tessa?’”

“He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts.”

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