Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pudding boiled in a bag.
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Examples
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It is pleasant to see that, after the countless centuries which had run out since Arthur, the bag-pudding and hot-pot maintained their ground — good, wholesome, country fare.
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The imperfect comprehension of harmonies, which is illustrated by the prehistoric bag-pudding of
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But the nursery rhyme about Arthur and the bag-pudding of barley meal with raisins and meat has a documentary worth for us beyond the shadowy recital of the banquet at Caerleon, for, mutato nomine, it is the description of a favourite article of popular diet in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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The prima stamina of the modern fruit-pudding really appear to be found in the ancient bag-pudding, of which Tom
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King Arthur's bag-pudding, what cannot be eaten at night may be served
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
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To make a bag-pudding. is far more Arthurian than anything in The Idylls of the King.
A Miscellany of Men 1905
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But the reader will never forget the bag-pudding, which "the Queen next morning fried."
The Nursery Rhyme Book Andrew Lang 1901
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Sirrah, there is no deceit in a bag-pudding, is there? nor in a plain pudding-pie?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Hast thou no great bag-pudding, nor hog's-face that is called souse?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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"I don't see that she looks different from usual," said Isel, who was mixing the ingredients for a "bag-pudding."
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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