Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
wafer . - noun Same as
wafer .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wafer-cake.
Examples
-
They would not “go back again to the wafer-cake and kneelings” (the Knoxian Black Rubric had been deleted from Elizabeth's prayer book), “and to other knackles of Popery.”
John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905
-
And seeing that in the mass there is a strange Christ adored, not he that was born of the Virgin Mary, but one that is made of a wafer-cake; and that the offering up of this breaden god is thrust upon the church as "a propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead;" all true
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
-
Dutch wafer-cake booths, where the handsome Dutch women, in their national costume, wait on the customers, entice old and young.
-
They would not "go back again to the wafer-cake and kneelings" (the Knoxian
John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.