vanilla slice
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A snack similar to a mille-feuille, consisting of a layer of vanilla custard or cream between two layers of pastry.
Australian usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "Strain 1162 was isolated from a vanilla slice that was incriminated in a second outbreak originating in the same bakery, six weeks after the first outbreak."
- "1978, Association of Public Health Inspectors (UK), An Examination of the Bacteriological Quality of Retail Vanilla Slices, Environmental Health, Volume 86, page 67, One hundred and thirty-three vanilla slices, purchased from shops in the County of West Yorkshire, were examined to determine the numbers and type of bacteria present at the time of purchase."
- "She passed the answering machine as she brought over a tray with the coffee and a vanilla slice that she′d divided unevenly. ‘Homemade?’ I asked, as she handed me the larger portion."
- "2011, Vicky Daddo, Meeting My Renaissance Man, Stephen Thompson (editor), Mythic Resonance, Specusphere, Australia, unnumbered page, ‘Vanilla slice,’ he said, his voice directed at the glass cabinet. […] I pulled back the tray with the vanilla slices and he ducked down like a meerkat on sentry duty."
- "Leaving Lady Margaret to do battle with the bookies, I bought myself a country-baked vanilla slice. The biggest, mouth-watering vanilla slice I′d ever laid eyes on. Then, cake clutched in both hands, face sticky with creamy custard—not the chewy rubbery custard found in store-bought slices—I wandered over to the catching pen in readiness to catch Ben′s dog at the end of the race."
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage