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
No, Harry, you can't have any more syrup on your buckwheat cake.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
“Did he?” said Fritz, bolting a bit of buckwheat cake and hastily rising from the table.
From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
"I fail to see the similarity between a buckwheat cake and a porous plaster," said the School-master, resolved, if possible, to embarrass the Idiot.
From Coffee and Repartee by Bangs, John Kendrick
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