Christmas cake

Christmas cake
noun
a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas
Hypernyms: ↑fruitcake

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Christmas cake noun
A rich fruitcake, usu iced, made for Christmas
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Main Entry:Christmas

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Christmas cake UK US noun [countable/uncountable] [singular Christmas cake plural Christmas cakes] british
a heavy fruit cake eaten at Christmas in the UK
Thesaurus: relating to or connected with the christmas periodhypernym cakes and biscuitshyponym

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noun, pl ⋯ cakes [count, noncount]
Brit : a cake that contains nuts and fruits and that is served at Christmas

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ˈChristmas cake [Christmas cake] noun countable, uncountable
a fruit cake covered with ↑marzipan and ↑icing, traditionally eaten in Britain and some other countries at Christmas

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