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Examples
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Nobody but Jennings shared Bertha's hallucination that she could cook, and he was the recipient of special dishes, such delicacies as cup-custard, and toast.
The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread.
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I'd stick round and try to get some sense into the cup-custard she called her brain.
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"She shall have a cup-custard to-morrow," returned the housekeeper.
Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890
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Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread.
The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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One of our fellows heard Stoute telling the doctor about it; and Fatty was so tickled that he shook just like a freshly-baked cup-custard.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Oliver Optic 1859
qroqqa commented on the word cup-custard
Idabel Christie likes the fudge cup-custard, but I can't resist the prune spin.
—Dorothy Parker, 'The Bolt behind the Blue'
November 12, 2008