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marchpane

[ mahrch-peyn ]

noun



marchpane

/ 藞尘蓱藧迟蕛藢辫别瑟苍 /

noun

  1. an archaic word for marzipan
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of marchpane1

1485鈥95; < French, dialectal variant of massepain, marcepain < Italian marzapane, originally sugar-candy box, perhaps < Arabic 尘补飞迟丑补产腻苍 a seated king
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of marchpane1

C15: from French
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Example Sentences

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One day she and I were in the kitchen, watching Mandy make marchpane.

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Among other eccentricities, Murray had taken against 鈥渕arzipan鈥, preferring to spell it 鈥渕archpane鈥, and decreed that the adjective 鈥淎frican鈥 should not be included, on the basis that it was not really a word.

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Shops have been 280 promptly opened for a holiday sale of the Toledo specialties鈥攁rabesqued swords and daggers, every variety of Damascened wares, and marchpane in form of mimic hams, fish, and serpents.

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"A marchpane, that Englishwoman," interrupted Swidwicki; "but her maid has more electricity in her."

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And only think, last of all came ice-cream doves sitting in a nest made of sugar, upon eggs of marchpane!

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