wafer
noun
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
waferlike
-
a word derived from
wafer.
Example Sentences
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While you could crush up smooth, waferlike rice crackers for this, the shrimp cakes won’t be quite as airy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
But Mason’s characters, too, are uncompelling compared to his plot, the waferlike concoctions of technothriller convenience, their superpowers perfunctorily deepened with a side serving of regret.
From Slate ● May 25, 2017
Adventures in a Sinister Wonderland “Eat,” the White Queen barks, as you wonder what to do with the waferlike snack she has handed you.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2013
Violet now attended alone to her mother's afternoon tea, kneeling by her side as she sipped the refreshing infusion, and coaxing her to eat a waferlike slice of bread-and-butter, or a few morsels of sponge-cake.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The tea table, set with a snowy doth, glittered invitingly, its silver and porcelain, its plates of dainty sandwiches and thin waferlike cookies—Wing Sam's specialty—enticingly displayed.
From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
