dumb cake

noun

A cake made in silence by girls on St Mark's Eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.

Meanings

noundumb cake (plural dumb cakes)

plural dumb cakes

  1. historicalA cake made in silence by girls on St Mark's Eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.
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