Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pudding composed of flour and finely chopped beef suet, with raisins, currants, various spices, and wine, brandy, or rum.
  • noun See the extract.

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Examples

  • Because she's marrying into the highest possible society, Kate will not wear the traditional garter belt for William to seductively strip off her leg in between the Yorkshire and plum-pudding courses and toss to the present bachelors, according to early indications from royal watchers.

    Meredith C. Carroll: New Royal Wedding Details Unveiled Meredith C. Carroll 2011

  • Because she's marrying into the highest possible society, Kate will not wear the traditional garter belt for William to seductively strip off her leg in between the Yorkshire and plum-pudding courses and toss to the present bachelors, according to early indications from royal watchers.

    Meredith C. Carroll: New Royal Wedding Details Unveiled Meredith C. Carroll 2011

  • One among them all, perhaps -- if they could be expected to eat Napoleon cakes at all after plum-pudding.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • Now I must tell you that these cakes were served after every man had put away a quarter of a plum-pudding.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • If you put out your hand to get a plum-pudding and shut it again, you could be sure it was a plum-pudding you had hold of.

    The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

  • β€œYes; when people live on poor vegetables instead of roast beef and plum-pudding, their jaws grow large, and their lips grow coarse, like the poor Paddies who eat potatoes.”

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Lisa, your comment on mathematical analysis reminds me of Tovey: ... like making an exhaustive chemical analysis of a plum-pudding and omitting to ascertain that the cook had boiled it in a cloth

    Who Composes, 2 Lisa Hirsch 2007

  • We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • In happy schoolboys he revels; plum-pudding and holidays his needle has engraved over and over again; there is a design in one of the comic almanacs of some young gentlemen who are employed in administering to a schoolfellow the correction of the pump, which is as graceful and elegant as a drawing of Stothard.

    George Cruikshank 2006

  • Hungry β€” she took out a cold fowl, some slices of ham, bread, salt, and a most delicious piece of cold plum-pudding, and a little glass of brandy afterwards.

    The Rose and the Ring 2006

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