a white cake, traditionally in tiered layers, covered with white icing and decorated.
(in England) a fruit cake, similar in appearance.
First recorded in 1640–50
First recorded in 1875–80
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At least one commissioned a wedding cake in the shape of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
This is not a wedding cake; it’s a celebration among friends.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2026
The early embrace of sunshine as an antiseptic, formalized in New York’s wedding cake towers that were required to step back gradually from the street, soon morphed into a generalized opposition to tall buildings.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
Their wedding cake will even feature a small tribute to Popcorn, with his name written at the bottom.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Imani: “You gonna have wedding cake and all that?”
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Not just standard wedding-cake topper, 1990s romantic-comedy love, but inclusive love.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The southeastern German state now manages 45 palaces, including the wedding-cake piles of King Ludwig II, who essentially abandoned his royal duties to build some of Europe’s most ornate castles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020
For on the fast and sloping practice green between ACC’s first tee and its massive wedding-cake clubhouse, late-afternoon putting matches are a rich thread in the Masters Week tapestry.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 27, 2017
But then, every once in a while, I’d be in Radcliffe Square and suddenly find myself taken aback at the glory of the place: the wedding-cake Camera.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2016
There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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