Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small dense pastry filled with bean paste, ground lotus seeds, or other ingredients, traditionally eaten during the Chinese moon festival.
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- noun A rich, dense
Chinese pastry with a variety offillings , usually to eat inZhongqiu Festival.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Practically every food shop, restaurant, duty-free and department store I've visited here has had some kind of mooncake boxed assortment on offer, in elaborate packaging.
Boing Boing 2007
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My Chinese friend said this would be used to make a simple Chinese almond cookie, or a special kind of mooncake you know, the kind with sweetened bean filling.
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]: 月餅; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: yuèbĭng) is a heavy [[Chinese]] [[pastry]].
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]: 月餅; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: yuèbĭng) is a heavy [[Chinese]] [[pastry]].
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]: 月餅; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: yuèbĭng) is a heavy [[Chinese]] [[pastry]].
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]:
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]:
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A '' 'mooncake' '' ([[Simplified Chinese | Simplified]]: 月饼; [[Traditional Chinese | Traditional]]:
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Niu Shupei/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A child looked at a giant mooncake in a store in Xuchang, central China's Henan province, on Sept. 1.
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Zhang Chi/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A panda ate a bamboo mooncake Saturday in a zoo in Weifang, east China's Shandong province.
bilby commented on the word mooncake
A pastry made and consumed for Chinese lunar festivals.
December 17, 2007