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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cake made in layers, generally with a filling between the layers and an icing over the top.

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Examples

  • "I think some beefsteak and chocolate layer-cake would taste best," said Dorothy.

    Love Letters 2010

  • It isn't the lack of quality of American cars folks, it is the social pressures within Japan and the complex layer-cake of bureaucratic restrictions that keep all imports marginalized, not just our cars.

    How to save GM with the stroke of a pen 2009

  • So there is a layer-cake specimen with the epidermis on top, the dermis in the middle, and fat underneath that.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • As a bit of leavening to this layer-cake, here we've got two years and 6 days ago, when I wrote about the Elora Festival, the first time we were in Grambel Barn for an awesome Patricia O'Callaghan concert.

    My profile is stale. quingawaga 2007

  • So there is a layer-cake specimen with the epidermis on top, the dermis in the middle, and fat underneath that.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Pour half the batter into a greased and floured 8-inch square or 9-inch layer-cake pan.

    A Valentine Cinnamon-Streusel Cake, My Little Chefs and a Nomination... Cardamom 2007

  • It is important to note that the unusual “layer-cake” shape of the towers is attributed to brick remodeling done by by Laotian invaders in the 15th-16th century.

    A Lonely Vigil: Two Devata at Sikhoraphum in Thailand | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2009

  • So there is a layer-cake specimen with the epidermis on top, the dermis in the middle, and fat underneath that.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • The iPod nano -- a term meaning one billionth -- is smaller than a business card and about as thick as layer-cake frosting.

    Honey, I Shrunk The Ipod. A Lot. 2008

  • The club, Sheehy wrote, is “the quintessence of New York — seductive cocktail tables set beneath a window wall with a bigger-than-Trump vista across Central Park to the frosted layer-cake condos of Fifth Avenue.”

    When Felker Met Mailer: Frank DiGiacomo DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

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