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
Little George, then two and a half years old, had been taken suddenly ill after a supper on marchpane and plum broth, washed down by Christmas ale.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
"I haven't a bit of character," she thought, as she bit into the marchpane which the older, the wickeder one, offered her.
From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann
Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate:—good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and as thou loves me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.—
From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William
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
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