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 Cather, Willa Sibert
When the skillet seethes, and a blubbering hot Tilts the lid of the coffee-pot, And the scent of the buckwheat cake grows plain— O then is the time for a brave refrain!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
Straight down out of the sky the disk p. 30 swooped, a huge, spinning shape as flat as a buckwheat cake swimming in a golden haze of butterfat.
From The Mississippi Saucer by Long, Frank Belknap
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