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marchpane

[ mahrch-peyn ]

noun



marchpane

/ ˈ³¾É‘˳Ùʃˌ±è±ðɪ²Ô /

noun

  1. an archaic word for marzipan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of marchpane1

1485–95; < French, dialectal variant of massepain, marcepain < Italian marzapane, originally sugar-candy box, perhaps < Arabic ³¾²¹·É³Ù³ó²¹²úÄå²Ô a seated king
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of marchpane1

C15: from French
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One day she and I were in the kitchen, watching Mandy make marchpane.

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Among other eccentricities, Murray had taken against “marzipanâ€, preferring to spell it “marchpaneâ€, and decreed that the adjective “African†should not be included, on the basis that it was not really a word.

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Shops have been 280 promptly opened for a holiday sale of the Toledo specialties—arabesqued swords and daggers, every variety of Damascened wares, and marchpane in form of mimic hams, fish, and serpents.

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"A marchpane, that Englishwoman," interrupted Swidwicki; "but her maid has more electricity in her."

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And only think, last of all came ice-cream doves sitting in a nest made of sugar, upon eggs of marchpane!

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