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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Colleton’s 1820 Greek Revival courthouse is elegant like a wedding cake.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 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
She’s made it so intrinsic to her plot, for so many believable reasons, that it’s also the icing and the cherry on the wedding cake.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh—the air becomes charged with laughter until I can’t stand it—and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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