bride-cake
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "THIS day my Julia thou must make For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake: Knead but the Dow, and it will be To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee: Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice, And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice."
- "When I was a little boy (before the Civill warres) I have seen (according to the custome then) the Bride and Bride-groome kisse over the Bride-cakes at the Table: it was about the later end of dinner: and yᵉ cakes were layd one upon another, like the picture of the Sew-bread in yᵉ old Bibles."
- "Smart bonnets and feathers were retreating as she entered the precincts of the house; and the footboy was retiring from the drawing-room with empty chocolate cups, and with mutilated bride-cake."
- "Mr Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odour of cupboard."