rout cake

English

Noun

rout cake (countable and uncountable, plural rout cakes)

(dated) A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate

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