Read full poem →'Twixt the cold bears, far from the raging lion.
Lies my safe way; oh, for a cake of ice now
To clap unto nfty heart to comfort me.
Dictionary Entry
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. cakecake chocolatecake weddingcake birthdaycake spongecake poundcake filter
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Poetry examples for “cake”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →‘« And so you'll live on Bye-and-bye, é
‘« With oaten-cake and water-cress !” :
Read full poem →Her color, flame of spirit. And he bought
Some chablis and a cake, slipped noiselessly
Into the chamber where she lay asleep,
Read full poem →_I have merely sketched a primitive outline of a career as rich in
adventures as a fruit-cake is full of raisins. I have already
stated that I hope Langston Hughes may be persuaded to set it down
Read full poem →they serve giant hamburgers and soup-of-the-day and four kinds of
fancy cake at a very clean counter facing a long glarey mirror.
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Read full poem →Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats,
Canes with a brilliant lacquer shine,
Read full poem →When that tough foe was at his feet--
Found in the stump no angel-cake
Nor buttered bread, nor cheese, nor meat--