savarin

[ sav-uh-rin ]

/ ˈsæv ə rɪn /

a spongelike cake leavened with yeast, baked in a ring mold, and often soaked with a rum syrup.

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1875–80; < French, named after Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (died 1826), French politician and gourmet

Thwicket had left two minutes before, having learned that Gallivant was at the Savarin.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York|Lemuel Ely Quigg
Partly out of that clique, partly out of a circle beyond it, which Savarin can more or less influence, I select ten.
The Parisians, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Savarin gently detained her hand, and looking earnestly into her tell-tale face, divined her secret.
The Parisians, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"That is a secret which I do not know myself," answered Savarin.
The Parisians, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But do you not see—or at least, do you not conjecture—this journal of which Savarin speaks contains my present and my future?
The Parisians, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton