simnel

Noun

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Noun (2)

  1. a crisp bread of fine white flourType of bread, breadstuff
  2. a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or ChristmasType of fruitcake
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sim′nel noun

Origin: OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL. simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semolina.

1. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. obsolete

Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels.— Thomas Fuller

2. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. British Robert Herrick

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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