Genoa cake

British

noun

a rich fruit cake, usually decorated with almonds

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All this time his well-fed wife has been pouring out the tea and slicing the Genoa cake; and now, with a smile of reassurance, she takes our names and college.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

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