barmbrack

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Also two green ware plates, on one of which she puts a barmbrack with a knife beside it.

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  • Also two green ware plates, on one of which she puts a barmbrack with a knife beside it. —  The Devil's Disciple
  • Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices. —  Dubliners
  • ancestral town of Moneygall, Co Offaly (pop: 298) has come up with a celebratory barmbrack —  techno-culture
 

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  1. A corruption of Irish bairigen breac, speckled cake: bairigen, bairghean, bairīn, a cake; breac, speckled, spotted.
 

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