Wedding-cake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wedding-cake is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Extremely ornate.
Meaning
(idiomatic) Extremely ornate.
More Meanings
- Dated form of wedding cake.
Example Sentences
A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.
Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried.
Many a Suffolk lass believes that she will be sure to dream of her future husband if she sleep with her head on a pillow beneath which there lies a piece of wedding-cake that a bride has with her own hand cut from her bridal cake, and passed three times through her bridal ring.
For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste, if it may be called taste at all, can be no more referred to correct principles of design than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty.
Word Forms
- wedding-cakes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overornate, ornate, overdecorative, superelaborate, fancy, baroque.
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