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
With its butter yellow paint, green shutters, and white railings, Gracie Mansion is a wedding cake of a house overlooking the East River.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
The comfortable bungalow was just blocks from the dictator’s huge wedding cake palace that the mobs had long ago burned down.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Not just standard wedding-cake topper, 1990s romantic-comedy love, but inclusive love.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
On a summer afternoon before the crowds arrive, it’s utterly serene, a reflection of Salzburg’s wedding-cake grace.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
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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