marchpane
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of marchpane
1485–95; < French, dialectal variant of massepain, marcepain < Italian marzapane, originally sugar-candy box, perhaps < Arabic mawthabān a seated king
Vocabulary lists containing marchpane
Example Sentences
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One day she and I were in the kitchen, watching Mandy make marchpane.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Shops have been 280 promptly opened for a holiday sale of the Toledo specialties—arabesqued swords and daggers, every variety of Damascened wares, and marchpane in form of mimic hams, fish, and serpents.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
One had a gilded trencher full of cakes, shortbread, marchpane, and other confectionery; but the other a gilded flagon in his hand.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
And only think, last of all came ice-cream doves sitting in a nest made of sugar, upon eggs of marchpane!
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
To these were added the costly wines of the seventeenth century, Tokay, Canary, Marzenin, Frontignac, Muscat, and finally wine of Lebanon; at dessert there was no longer marchpane, but candied citron, the fashionable delicacy.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
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