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Meaning of ring-cake | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.

US

Examples

“Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]”

“Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

ring-dropping ring-finger nail ring-fingernail ring-giver ring-giving ring-hall