buckwheat cake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of buckwheat cake
An Americanism dating back to 1740–50
Example Sentences
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Seven Autopsies on a Battlefield of Mangled Reputations On his first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cap helped herself to a buckwheat cake and daintily buttered it.
From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
At last he was so weary with sport that he slipped down upon the floor, and lay upon his back, till he finished eating his buckwheat cake.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
"I'll see if I am to be vanquished by a buckwheat cake," she said, studying her receipt-book that same evening.
From Divers Women by Pansy
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