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empire biscuit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables
em-pire bis-cuit
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of sweet biscuit, typically two pieces of shortbread with a layer of jam between them and icing and a glacé cherry on top, popular in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries.

Etymology

Originally known as the Linzer biscuit and later the Deutsch biscuit, it was rechristened the Empire biscuit in England with the outbreak of the First World War, after the British Empire.

Inflected Forms

Empire biscuits (plural)

Synonyms

Belgian biscuit biscuit bun double biscuit double shortbread Empire cookie German biscuit Imperial biscuit Imperial cookie Linzer biscuit

Questions

What does empire biscuit mean?
A kind of sweet biscuit, typically two pieces of shortbread with a layer of jam between them and icing and a glacé cherry on top, popular in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries.
Where does empire biscuit come from?
Originally known as the Linzer biscuit and later the Deutsch biscuit, it was rechristened the Empire biscuit in England with the outbreak of the First World War, after the British Empire.

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