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
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 Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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
She's the young limb o' mischief for whom I ravaged your stores of marchpane.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
"It's a good thing that you've put so much marchpane on it," he said.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
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