wafery

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The inside is, of course, the classic Ferrero wafery orb, and within that we have a machine-injected blob of chocolatey creamy stuff which also disappears fairly rapidly.

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  1. Like a wafer: as, a wafery thinness.
  2. Wafers collectively; pastry; cakes. The tartes, wafrie, and iounkettes, that wer to be serued and to com in after the meat. J. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 192. (Davies.)

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  • The inside is, of course, the classic Ferrero wafery orb, and within that we have a machine-injected blob of chocolatey creamy stuff which also disappears fairly rapidly. —  Chocablog
  • Then lemonade and wafery little cakes were brought in, that the puzzlers might refresh themselves. —  Patty's Friends
  • I believe that every eye in the room followed them and watched till they curled and crinkled into black, wafery ashes. —  Rupert of Hentzau
  • Under him were two other cooks and their six laborers; in the larder a yeoman and groom; in the scullery a yeoman and two grooms; in the ewry two yeomen and two grooms; in the buttery the same; in the cellar three yeomen and three pages; in the chandlery and the wafery, each two yeomen; in the wardrobe the master of the wardrobe and twenty assistants; in the laundry, yeoman, groom, thirteen pages, two yeoman-purveyors and groom-purveyor; in the bake-house, two yeomen and two grooms; in the wood-yard one yeoman and groom; in the barn a yeoman; at the gate two yeomen and two grooms; a yeoman of his barge; the master of his horse; a clerk and groom of the stables; the farrier; the yeoman of the stirrup; a maltster; and sixteen grooms, each keeping four horses There were the dean and sub-dean of his chapel; the repeater of the choir; the gospeler, the epistler, or the singing priest; the master of the singers, with his men and children. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1
  • "You ought to remember we're not used to these things," Wally protested, waving away a strange erection of cream, icing and wafery pastry. —  Back to Billabong
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  1. from wafer + -y.
  2. Early modern English wafrie; from wafer + -y (see -ery).
 

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