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seedcake en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsidˌkeɪk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From seed + cake.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
2. (countable, uncountable) A sweet cake, cookie or cracker containing aromatic seeds, especially caraway.
   • Remember thou therefore, though I do it not, The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
   • Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed. Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle. Joy: I ate it: joy. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

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