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SIMNEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does simnel mean?
• SIMNEL (noun)
The noun SIMNEL has 2 senses:
1. a crisp bread of fine white flour
2. a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas
Familiarity information: SIMNEL used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crisp bread of fine white flour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("simnel" is a kind of...):
bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("simnel" is a kind of...):
fruitcake (a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on)
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)
Context examples
All these were duly packed away deep in the traveller's scrip, and above them old pippin-faced brother Athanasius had placed a parcel of simnel bread and rammel cheese, with a small flask of the famous blue-sealed Abbey wine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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