wafer
noun
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
wafery
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a word derived from
wafer.
Example Sentences
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I believe that every eye in the room followed them and watched till they curled and crinkled into black, wafery ashes.
From Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper, and all settled themselves with a smiling satisfaction, prophetic of great powers and an equal willingness to employ them.
From Moods by Louisa May Alcott
"Allow me," said Mr. Raleigh, taking her plate and bringing it back directly with a wafery slice of bread and a quaking tumulus of jelly.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various
I was just going to try the little wafery things, when all of a sudden the Hayfork Parson sat up, looking all dazed and nohow.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then lemonade and wafery little cakes were brought in, that the puzzlers might refresh themselves.
From Patty's Friends by Carolyn Wells
