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English
Noun
Shrewsbury cake (plural Shrewsbury cakes)
- A type of flat, crisp biscuit traditionally made in Shrewsbury.
1700, Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 46:Why Brother Willfull of Salop, you may be as ſhort as a Shrewſbury Cake, if you pleaſe.
- 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 276:
- I bought some Shrewsbury cakes at Mr. Paul's in — Street, Covent Garden, eating some of which supported me somewhat.
- 1832 August 2, Queen Victoria, journal:
- I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes.