Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a highly ornate architectural style.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rich, decorated cake made to grace a wedding, It is cut and distributed to the guests, and portions of it are sent afterward to friends not present. Also
bride-cake .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Leah Walden, 59, said she saw about five fender benders on her drive from her accounting job in suburban Spring Valley to a wedding-cake tasting in San Diego.
Power outage affects 6 million in Calif., Ariz., Mexico 2011
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And the colors: I was certain that Martha Stewart, who had recently featured Necco wafers on a wedding cake (historically apt; the pièces montées that made Marie-Antoine Carême perhaps the first star chef, in the early 19th century, were made of gum tragacanth, the base of Necco wafers and still the base of many wedding-cake decorations), would be designing a line of paints around them.
Sugar and Spice 2009
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And the colors: I was certain that Martha Stewart, who had recently featured Necco wafers on a wedding cake (historically apt; the pièces montées that made Marie-Antoine Carême perhaps the first star chef, in the early 19th century, were made of gum tragacanth, the base of Necco wafers and still the base of many wedding-cake decorations), would be designing a line of paints around them.
Sugar and Spice 2009
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Leah Walden, 59, said she saw about five fender benders on her drive from her accounting job in suburban Spring Valley to a wedding-cake tasting in San Diego.
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What nerve to present an "engagement cake" to wedding-cake queen Sylvia Weinstock. ...
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Unlike most New York apartment buildings of a certain height, whose setbacks sit at 90-degree angles, creating that famous wedding-cake appearance, this building's setbacks are sloped, which draws the visitor's eye upward.
Peis Partner in Manhattan Dana Rubinstein 2011
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The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The state of Minas Gerais is rooted in mining—its name translates prosaically as "General Mines"—and the gold and gems found there, including aquamarines and imperial topaz, built charming colonial towns like Ouro Preto, with its terra-cotta roofs and wedding-cake churches.
Have It Your Way Scott Mitchem 2012
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Another problem: Many of the tall structures in midtown were built after World War II, when zoning laws were relaxed to allow modernist glass-windowed buildings to go straight up, with no frills or "setbacks," those wedding-cake layers on an earlier generation of skyscrapers that were thought to allow more sunlight onto the streets below.
Without a Ledge to Stand On Rachel Dodes 2012
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Leah Walden said she saw about five fender-benders on her drive from her accounting job in suburban Spring Valley to a wedding-cake tasting in San Diego.
Power returning after massive outage in San Diego, Mexico 2011
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