bride-cake

See also: bridecake

English edit

Noun edit

bride-cake (countable and uncountable, plural bride-cakes)

Alternative form of bridecake.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides‎^[1]:
  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.
- 1687–1689, John Aubrey, edited by James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, London: […] [F]or the Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton, and Co., […], published 1881, page 22:
  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 y^e cakes were layd one upon another, like the picture of the Sew-bread in y^e old Bibles.
- 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 286:
  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.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 48:
  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.