Wedding-cake
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Dated form of wedding cake. alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
"For years past this branch of art-manufacture had been entrusted to those whose taste, if it may be called taste at all, can be no more referred to correct principles of design than the gimcrack decorations of a wedding-cake could be tested by any standard of sculpturesque beauty."
- 1 Extremely ornate. idiomatic
"Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried."
Synonyms
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More examples"Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried."
Etymology
The adjective is from wedding cake.
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