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layer cake en · NOUN

Etymology

From layer + cake, named for its appearance, coined c. 1873.

Meanings

  1. A cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or jam, etc.
  2. A type of layering of materials, used in some nuclear bombs.

Forms

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Deriveds

layer cake federalism

Synonyms

sandwich · sandwich cake

Translations (4)

de Sahnetorte (type of cake) · fi täytekakku (type of cake) · pl przekładaniec (type of cake) · da lagkage (type of cake)

wikipedia: Oxford University Press