“singing cake”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

singing cake

释义

singing cake
†1. = singing bread. Obs.
1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 258 A patten with the hoste or singing cake.1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 43 He hath..delivered into his handes a chalice with wine and water, also the gilt Patent with a singing Cake.1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1102/2 A cat.., with hir fore feet tied togither, and a round peece of paper like a singing cake betwixt them.1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World Wond. 342 Vnconsecrated singing cakes (as they terme them).
†b. Used as a wafer for sealing with. Obs.
1582Munday Eng. Rom. Life 5 These Letters finished, and sealed vp with singing Cake, he delyuered vnto vs.
2. Sc. A cake given to singers on Hogmanay.
1894‘H. Haliburton’ (J. L. Robertson) Furth in Field 28 Money was sometimes added to the ordinary gift of ‘singing’ cakes and cheese.1894Meldrum Margrédel i. 6, I remember that dining at the Oliphant's crowned the joy of singing-cakes and other delights.

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