Naples biscuit

noun

A type of biscuit flavoured with rosewater.

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nounNaples biscuit (plural Naples biscuits)

plural Naples biscuits

  1. historicalA type of biscuit flavoured with rosewater.

    After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.

    1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 66
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