maid-of-honour tart

plural maid-of-honour tarts

1. alternativeAlternative form of maids of honour tart.

   […] Joan Bennet’s Forces’ Favourites were ‘Raspberry buns, rock cakes, Australian flapjacks, maid-of-honour tarts, and doughnuts.[…]’

   1989, Jane Waller, Michael Vaughan-Rees, Women in Uniform, London: Papermac, →ISBN, page 111

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   It was a terribly hot day, and yet that week’s hostess had knocked herself out making maid-of-honour tarts and jam sponge in a kitchen that must have been over one hundred degrees.

   1986, Audrey Thomas, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, Markham, Ont.: Viking, →ISBN, page 98

   It was over a maid-of-honour tart that her complacent mood took a turn for the worse – when Robert said in a low sympathetic voice, ‘How is Tessa?’

   1992, Kathleen Rowntree, Between Friends, London: Black Swan, published 1993, →ISBN, page 238

   He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts.

   2007, Allen Makepeace, And Such Great Names as These, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 127