Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic Marzipan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A confection made of pounded pistachio-nuts or almonds, with sugar, white of egg, etc. It was made into various ornamental devices.
- n. Hence—2. Something very fine or dainty.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete marzipan
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. Called also
marzipan .
WordNet 3.0
- n. almond paste and egg whites
Etymologies
- Perhaps obsolete French marcepain, from Italian marzapane, marzipan; see marzipan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Upon our early stage a kind of biscuit -- a "marchpane" -- was consumed by the players when they required to eat upon the stage.”
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
“marchpane" — (a confection of bitter almonds and sugar) — representing the”
“Considering, I bit into a piece of marchpane, a confection of blanched almonds and sugar.”
“I nibbled at a piece of marchpane and forced myself to smile.”
“In the end we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that there can be no more than three meat dishes and two sweetmeat courses, and that there are very few crystallized fruits and only a few marchpane dishes.”
“After the savouries came the sweetmeats; marchpane and gingerbread and little coffers of pastry filled with sugared currants and topped with yellow cream.”
“I call her to my private chamber, away from the girls, who have invaded the kitchen and are making marchpane sweetmeats for dinner, and we open our letters at either end of the writing table.”
““And Catherine ate so much marchpane she was sick in the night.””
“The second course at a feast included 'joly amber potage; jiggots of venison, stopped with cloves; lamprey, with galentine, marchpane; fritter-dolphin; leche-florentine'.”
“Know in Britain as marchpane, this sugar and almond paste concoction was introduced into Europe during the 13th century and became popular because it was easily sculpted and molded into fanciful shapes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘marchpane’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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Let them eat cake.
cake, cakes, Cake, bundt cake, pancake, cheesecake, yellowcake uranium, urinal cake, pound cake, birthday cake, wedding cake, sponge cake and 62 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 226 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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candy
mint, bonbon, taffy, sweets, sugarcoat, dragee, fudge, candyfloss, sugarplum, truffle, fondant, comfit and 30 more...
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his dark materials
marchpane, mulefa, naphtha, aleithiometer, cittàgazze, anbar, anbaric, coal-silk, panserbjørne, dust, belacqua, silvertongue and 9 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for marchpane.
yarb Marchpane would be a great name for an upper class twit - in a Waugh novel for example.
"Pennyfeather noticed the rotund figure of Marchpane ambling toward him, and uttered a silent malediction." Mar 11, 2008
reesetee Now I'm worried about marchpane. Mar 11, 2008
chained_bear Well, it's a good thing I don't have to decide between marzipan and marchpane, two perfectly alsome words. I can have my marzipan and eat marchpane too.
AHUH! AHUH-HUH!! <--upper-class twit laugh Mar 11, 2008
sionnach Marchpane is just an archaic word for marzipan; yes indeedy.
(Perhaps obsolete French marcepain, from Italian marzapane, marzipan; see marzipan.) AHD
Ringocandies must be an early Irish form of lifesavers... Mar 11, 2008
mollusque Somehow impoetence seems appropriate for niche worrying.
Mar 11, 2008
chained_bear No idea. I bet sionnach knows though. Mar 10, 2008
reesetee Niche worrying indeed! Excellent gloomy work there, c_b.
And is marchpane a variant of marzipan, do you know? Mar 10, 2008
chained_bear "Pudding. Sure, it starts with pudding or marchpane; then it is the toss of a coin which fails first, your hair or your teeth, your eyes or your ears; then comes impoetence, for age gelds a man without hope or reprieve, saving him a mort of anguish."
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 115
I like this not just for the vocabulary, but it reflects my own tendency to take a perfectly acceptable thing or word (in this case pudding) and delve so deeply into pessimism that we end up, in the end, at decay. It's kind of like niche worrying. Mar 10, 2008
brtom Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9 Jan 5, 2007