Bowlas
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bowlas is a noun meaning (slang, obsolete) Round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.
Meaning
(slang, obsolete) Round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.
Example Sentences
Among the regular articles of this street-sale are "Coventrys," or three-cornered puffs with jam inside; raspberry biscuits; cinnamon biscuits; "chonkeys," or a kind of mince-meat baked in crust; Dutch butter-cakes; Jews' butter-cakes; "bowlas," or round tarts made of sugar, apple, and bread; "jumbles," or thin crisp cakes made of treacle, butter, and flour; and james, or open tarts with a little preserve in the centre.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bowle, boule, sugarbowl, boodle, sugar-bread, nutbowl.
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