"bride-cake" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: bride-cakes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bride-cake (countable and uncountable, plural bride-cakes)
  1. Alternative form of bridecake. Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: bridecake
    Sense id: en-bride-cake-en-noun-ftvd8w~L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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 yᵉ cakes were layd one upon another, like the picture of the Sew-bread in yᵉ old Bibles.",
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