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  • proper noun A small town in Hesse, Germany
  • noun Battenberg cake

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Examples

  • There's this old cake called the Battenberg cake; it's an old British cake.

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  • Appropriately, the Battenberg is a sponge cake so.

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  • Ten miles south of Darmstadt, the grand duke found his brother a village called Battenberg where a small castle sat on a mountain bluff above the river Eder.

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  • Spotted wearing what OK! magazine described as a Battenberg cake-inspired dress (although we'd say it was more Meg and Mog)

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  • In Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel "The Help," young matrons barely out of their 20s attend weekly bridge-club meetings around tables that have been polished with lemon oil and set with Battenberg lace and heavy silver.

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  • In the end, Mountbatten's main contribution was to provide a surname for Philip, the anglicized form of Battenberg being preferred to the unwieldy S-H-S-G.

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  • She crocheted yards of laces for her underwear, and made Battenberg in abundance for her table and for the bureau.

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  • His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was stone deaf and a religious maniac.

    The Long Route To Windsor Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • They also use everything from the latest advances in graphics software to the more traditional animation stalwarts of stop-motion, notably squirrels as seen in Stewart Comrie's Battenberg.

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  • Battenberg, Prüßen. xxx on March 18, 2009 at 11: 13 am | Reply Ronald von Sprog

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