rout cake

noun

A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

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Meanings

nounrout cake (countable and uncountable, plural rout cakes)

plural rout cakes

  1. countabledateduncountableA kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.

    twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
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    I have visions of roast partridge and rout cakes, but instead we are given a quinoa salad and stone bass. Delicious, albeit not very Austenesque.

    2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend (Travel section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
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