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Layer cake

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or jam, etc.
  2. 2
    cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of layering of materials, used in some nuclear bombs.

Etymology

From layer + cake, named for its appearance, coined c. 1873.

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