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Shrewsbury cake en · NOUN
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A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
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1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 46:I bought some Shrewsbury cakes at Mr. Paul's in — Street, Covent Garden, eating some of which supported me somewhat.
1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 276I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes.
1832 August 2, Queen Victoria, journal
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