Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun White spongecake.
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Examples
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-- If a slightly larger cake than the first angel-cake recipe will make is desired, the accompanying recipe should be followed.
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"Do you mean to tell me that if I live on angel-cake I'll grow to be angelic?" demanded Blue Bonnet.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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"Hadn't you better include several tons of angel-cake and fifty gallons or so of ice-cream?" asked Kitty.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924
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"If you have time, I wish you would," Mrs. Carew said, touching the frosted top of an angel-cake with a tentative finger.
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Our own poetry was then sentimental, a kind of "sugared angel-cake"; and Longfellow, who was sentimental enough but whose sentiment was balanced by scholarship, made poetry that was like wholesome bread to common men.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Mine's in that frame of mind now that transforms my gingerbread into angel-cake, but the time may come when I'll have to beat my eggs to a fluff even for angel-cake, so's not to have it taste like gingerbread to him.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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Would yer like Darlin 'fer a bridesmaid -- and grog and angel-cake?
Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906
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Eggs went up in price until even packed eggs of the previous summer sold for twenty-seven and thirty cents a dozen, and angel-cake became an impossible dainty.
Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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Where a housekeeper feels it necessary to prepare cake, she should select some receipt free from butter or other fat, such as angel-cake or sponge-cake, both of which when properly made are exceedingly good to the taste, and lack the undesirable quality of containing fats.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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Vesty was there with the rest, munching a slice of angel-cake -- fit food for her!
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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