Ring-cake

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs. US

    "Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]"

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"Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]"

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