battenberg

plural battenbergs

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Battenberg (“Battenberg cake”).

   When the prince married Princess Victoria (Queen Victoria’s granddaughter), the battenberg was their wedding cake.

   2016 June 25, Claire Ptak, “Claire Ptak’s regal battenberg cake recipe”, in The Guardian

plural Battenbergs

1. countableA surname from German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten.
2. countableuncountableA small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.

   Incidentally, Anthony and I once visited the town of Battenberg, on a sort of pilgrimage. It's a pretty little spot in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, although no one is much interested in talking about cake there.

   2017, Damien Trench, Miles Jupp, Egg and Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir, Hachette, →ISBN

3. countableuncountableA town in Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

plural Battenbergs · alternative battenberg

1. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Battenberg cake.

   I’m more of a Radio 4-and-a-slice-of-Battenberg type of girl, yet here I am, dancing, drinking, and, inevitably, ending up in the ladies’ loos with two women who were strangers 24 hours ago, applying lipstick and trying not to suffocate in a cloud of Elnett.

   2017 August 6, Helen Russell, “Why making friends as a grown-up is scary – and how to do it anyway”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2017