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Banbury cake

American

noun

a small, oval pastry containing currants, candied peel, honey, spices, etc., usually with three parallel cuts across the top.

Banbury cake British

noun

a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top

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Etymology

Origin of Banbury cake

1605–15; named after Banbury, where it was made

Example Sentences

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Loewe & Co., because of the boycott, charged 240 Danbury hatters with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are known in the annals of organized labor chiefly for the loyalty and devotion they showed during the strike of the Danbury hatters in 1909.

From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice

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