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
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
By way of acknowledging the new connection, the child's father sent the godfather a marchpane, that cake of mystic origin which is still honoured and eaten from Nuremberg to Malaga.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Cecil arrived at Cambridge the day before the queen to set all things in order, and received from the university a customary offering of two pairs of gloves, two sugarloaves, and a marchpane.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
He never eats marchpane in church—nor rolls balls there.'
From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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