Meaning of wedding-cake | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of wedding cake.

alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

“For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste⟳, if it may be called taste⟳ at all, can be no more referred to correct⟳ principles of design⟳ than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty.”

“Many a Suffolk lass believes that she will be sure to dream⟳ of her future husband if she sleep⟳ with her head on a pillow beneath which there lies a piece of wedding-cake that a bride has with her own⟳ hand cut⟳ from her bridal cake, and passed three times through her bridal ring⟳.”

“A Victoria spongecake held pride of place⟳ as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.”

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