simnel

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"Khubz Samнz;" the latter is the Arabisation of the Pers. Samнd, fine white bread, simnel, Germ.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.
  2. noun Chiefly British A rich fruitcake sometimes covered with almond paste and traditionally eaten at mid-Lent, Easter, and Christmas.

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  • So it will be simnel cake on Friday, hot cross buns on Saturday and probably a lamb pie on Sunday (there's a recipe for my one in this weekend's magazine). —  The Guardian World News
  • I say we need a little Easter, right this very minute, simnel on the table with marzipan inside it (sorry Mr Herman), just to say hooray for getting this far through life and accepting that it could be a whole lot worse. —  The Guardian World News
  • Let's not forget our own simnel cake with 11 marzipan balls representing the apostles —  The Guardian World News
  • The British simnel cake is now traditional at Easter although it was originally it was a cake made to celebrate Mothering Sunday. —  In a strange land
  • My sister and I had to form it into 11 spheres (representing the disciples, minus Judas) to go on top of the simnel cake for tea. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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  1. Middle English, from Old French siminel, from Medieval Latin siminellus, ultimately from Latin simila, fine flour; see semolina.

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  1. Early modern English also simnell, symnel, cymnel, also dial. simlin, simblin, simbling (see simlin); from Middle English simnel, simnell, simenal, symnell, symnelle, from Old French simenel, simonnel (Middle Latin simenellus; also simella), bread or cake of fine wheat flour, from Latin simila, wheat flour of the finest quality: see semola.
 

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