"bride-cake" meaning in English

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          "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.",
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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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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 286:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 48:",
          "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 odour of cupboard.",
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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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