wedding-cake

See also: wedding cake

English

Etymology

The adjective is from wedding cake.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wedding-cake (comparative more wedding-cake, superlative most wedding-cake)

  1. (idiomatic) Extremely ornate.
    • 2003, Rough Guide To Scandinavia, page 502:
      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.

Noun

wedding-cake (countable and uncountable, plural wedding-cakes)

  1. Dated form of wedding cake.
    • 1869, Charles L[ocke] Eastlake, “The Entrance Hall”, in Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 48:
      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.
    • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “The Ring-Finger”, in Brides and Bridals. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 160:
      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.
    • 1993, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 10, in Moonflower Madness, Sutton, London: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:
      A Victoria spongecake held pride of place as a wedding-cake, and there were glass jugs of orange-juice and chilled China tea.
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