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twelfth day cake (plural twelfth day cakes)

  1. A Twelfth cake.
    • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 212:
      The three young Cookes drank tea with us, and we had a Twelfth Day cake.