See bridecake on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "bride", "3": "cake" }, "expansion": "bride + cake", "name": "compound" } ], "etymology_text": "From bride + cake.", "forms": [ { "form": "bridecakes", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "bridecake (countable and uncountable, plural bridecakes)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:", "text": "This day my Julia thou must make\nFor Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:\nKnead but the Dow, and it will be\nTo paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:\nOr kisse it thou, but once, or twice,\nAnd for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1860, Mary Theresa Vidal, chapter 15, in Bengala, Or, Some Time Ago, volume 1, London: John W. Parker & Son, pages 193–194:", "text": "But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 3, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:", "text": "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 odor of cupboard.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1874, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 12 October, 1874, in Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, p. 107", "text": "The Glacier des Bois is no more. Of that of our days is left a little white tongue of ice showing in the blank bed. . . . But the saddest of all is Mont Blanc itself from here—it is, to what it was, as a mere whitewashed wall to a bridecake." }, { "ref": "1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the First. The Landing:", "text": "He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late—\nAnd it drove the poor Bellman half-mad—\nHe could only bake Bridecake—for which, I may state,\nNo materials were to be had.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Synonym of wedding cake." ], "id": "en-bridecake-en-noun-bPzXK3bz", "links": [ [ "wedding cake", "wedding cake#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(archaic) Synonym of wedding cake." ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "synonym", "synonym-of" ], "word": "wedding cake" }, { "word": "bride-cake" } ], "tags": [ "archaic", "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "bridecake" }
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "bride", "3": "cake" }, "expansion": "bride + cake", "name": "compound" } ], "etymology_text": "From bride + cake.", "forms": [ { "form": "bridecakes", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "bridecake (countable and uncountable, plural bridecakes)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English compound terms", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with archaic senses", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:", "text": "This day my Julia thou must make\nFor Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:\nKnead but the Dow, and it will be\nTo paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:\nOr kisse it thou, but once, or twice,\nAnd for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1860, Mary Theresa Vidal, chapter 15, in Bengala, Or, Some Time Ago, volume 1, London: John W. Parker & Son, pages 193–194:", "text": "But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 3, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:", "text": "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 odor of cupboard.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1874, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 12 October, 1874, in Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, p. 107", "text": "The Glacier des Bois is no more. Of that of our days is left a little white tongue of ice showing in the blank bed. . . . But the saddest of all is Mont Blanc itself from here—it is, to what it was, as a mere whitewashed wall to a bridecake." }, { "ref": "1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the First. The Landing:", "text": "He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late—\nAnd it drove the poor Bellman half-mad—\nHe could only bake Bridecake—for which, I may state,\nNo materials were to be had.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Synonym of wedding cake." ], "links": [ [ "wedding cake", "wedding cake#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(archaic) Synonym of wedding cake." ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "synonym", "synonym-of" ], "word": "wedding cake" } ], "tags": [ "archaic", "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "bride-cake" } ], "word": "bridecake" }
Download raw JSONL data for bridecake meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.