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
I don't care," he murmured, buttering his last buckwheat cake without ambition; "too much trouble to copy 'em down.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
Every man pulled from his bag or his pocket a bit of bread or a buckwheat cake, and followed the example of his general, who had already divided the chicken between Roland and himself.
From The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas père
Una ate hers, and went upstairs to see grand-mamma; and Julian sat on my lap, very tired with play, eating a cold buckwheat cake, and gazing out.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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