fruitcake
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- noun
- /ˈfruːtkeɪk/
:
pastel de frutas
- By the eighteenth century, after improvements in refining and much experimenting, large, plain, white-iced fruitcakes were available for very special occasions.
- Christmas fruitcake
- bake fruitcake
- holiday fruitcake
Examples
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I'm gonna send him a fruitcake every Christmas.
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Our bakery is featuring a special on fruitcakes!
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How about a fruitcake for Christmas?
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I picked up a fruitcake.
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I plan to make Christmas cookies and fruitcake.
Fiction book (1994) -
This was a magazine my mother used to buy for its fruitcake recipes.
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Now there are 75 fruitcakes available for the next Tea Party bake sale!
Blog text (8) -
Fruitcake laced with rum seemed the only logical choice in such a situation.
Fiction book (1992) -
Expecting their Christmas fruitcake and curls of pork rinds early?
Fiction book (1994) -
We always have a delicious fruitcake at our family gatherings during the holidays.
Synonyms
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A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
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A rich cake with dried fruit and sweet icing that people eat at Christmas
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Etymology
Fruitcake is simply fruit + cake, and it originally named a rich cake filled with dried fruit, nuts and citrus peel that people often serve at holidays. So a fruitcake today is still the same rich celebration cake.