gâche

plural gâches

1. GuernseycountableuncountableA type of traditional fruitcake. (Often as Guernsey gâche.)

   She said I could go on the Sunday afternoon, and she would make a gâche I could take to him.

   1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 48

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   A huge Guernsey gache, which is a sort of fruit cake, was flanked by plates and baskets of figs, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and raspberries.

   1938, National Geographic, volume LXXIII

   Baking of bread, gâche – a sort of fruit loaf rather like the Welsh bara brith – and Guernsey biscuits – a kind of bread bun – would be done once a week […]

   1980, John McCormack, The Guernsey House

   It is too hot to eat much, so we lunch on bananas and the gache loaf bought the previous day, and set off for Guernsey at half past one.

   2011, Sandra Clayton, Dolphins Under My Bed