Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cake left after expressing the oil from almonds. Its powder is used as soap in washing the hands.
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Examples
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Don't skip the chocolate cigar, an almond-cake and chocolate-mousse confection, for dessert.
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Montelimart is famous for white almond-cake, “Nougat,” of which the best is in the shops in the Grande Rue.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
The Emperor — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
The Emperor — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
The Emperor — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
The Emperor — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Also _de rigueur_ was the purchase of nougat and raki, the local mandorlato and mastaché, almond-cake and grape-spirit.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Everybody got up at the same time, including Porthos, who was just finishing an almond-cake capable of making the jaws of a crocodile stick together.
Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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