mooncakes

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A form of mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).

Scrabble 17

Meanings

noun

alternative moon cakes · alternative moon-cakes

  1. pluralplural of mooncake
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