WHITE CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white cake mean? 

• WHITE CAKE (noun)
  The noun WHITE CAKE has 1 sense:

1. cake made without egg yolks

  Familiarity information: WHITE CAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE CAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cake made without egg yolks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("white cake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

 Context examples 

We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)