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maids of honour tart

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English

Syllables
maid-s of honour -tart
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.

Etymology

Said to date back to Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

Inflected Forms

maids of honour tarts (plural) Maid of Honour tart (alternative) maid-of-honour tart (alternative) maid of honor tart (alternative, US) maid-of-honor tart (alternative, US)

Synonyms

maids of honour cake

Questions

What does maids of honour tart mean?
A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.
Where does maids of honour tart come from?
Said to date back to Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

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