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
He ate heartily and quickly, while the two waited for him and nibbled at marchpane.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
In "Romeo and Juliet" one of the servants says: "Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane."
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
Hee-hehee!' he cried; 'give me your sweetmeats! out with your cakes, marchpane and sugar-stick, gingerbread cakes!
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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
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