Meanings
bakewell1
nounbakewell (countable and uncountable, plural bakewells)
plural bakewells
- countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Bakewell (“Bakewell tart”).
Good, well presented food includes […] puddings such as bread and butter pudding with apricot sauce and raspberry bakewell with pistachio ice-cream.
2014, “Old Hall”, in Alisdair Aird, Fiona Stapley, editors, The Good Pub Guide 2015, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, pages 479–480
Bakewell2
proper nounBakewell (countable and uncountable, plural Bakewells)
plural Bakewells
- countableuncountableA market town and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2168).
- countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.
- countableuncountableA suburb of the City of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia, named after E. H. Bakewell.
nounBakewell (countable and uncountable, plural Bakewells)
plural Bakewells
- abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Bakewell tart.
Elsie reached for a slice of Bakewell and spoke through it.
2007, Jeremy Page, “Norfolk, Oh Yeah”, in Salt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 260
Origin
From the Old English personal name Badeca + wella (“spring, stream”).
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