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ECCLES CAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Eccles cake mean?
• ECCLES CAKE (noun)
The noun ECCLES CAKE has 1 sense:
1. a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
Familiarity information: ECCLES CAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Eccles cake" is a kind of...):
cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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