Crossword clues for battenberg
battenberg
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of cake, 1903, from name of a town in Germany, the seat of a family which became known in Britain as Mountbatten.
Wikipedia
Battenberg (Eder) is a small town in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, Germany. The town is noted for giving its name to the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the ruling House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and through it, the name Mountbatten used by members of the British royal family, a literal translation of Battenberg.
Battenberg or Battenburg may refer to:
Usage examples of "battenberg".
At one point I called Martha Battenberg for an update, only to be told by her answering service that she was out of town.
In 1906 King Alfonso XIII married the English Princess Victoria Eugenie, daughter of the late Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice, a daughter of the late Queen Victoria.
April 1879 the assembly at Trnovo, on the proposal of Russia, elected as first sovereign of Bulgaria Prince Alexander of Battenberg, a member of the grand ducal house of Hesse and a nephew of the tsar Alexander II.
I gave him a slice of Battenberg, which he dropped in his eagerness to devour it.
Duchy of Schleswig into the Danish state overlooked I might have, but personal Battenberg insult I will not.
White design, the woodwork was painted white and the windows were hung with handmade Battenberg lace.
She crocheted yards of laces for her underwear, and made Battenberg in abundance for her table and for the bureau.
Melody slumped onto the bed and rolled over on her back, clutching a pillow of Battenberg lace against her chest.
Even so, he rarely ate more than one meal a day, generally spaghetti if it was a Trattoo night, surviving on doughnuts and his beloved Battenberg cake the rest of the time.
Then occasionally of an evening he would slip out and buy Battenberg cakes and peanut butter.
What the Battenberg did was to solve, simply and quickly, the triangle of relative velocities.
Functional, clean and even well-decorated with a Battenberg lace comforter on the four-poster and matching curtains on the window.
Marable, her eternal Battenberg in her hands, looked up through the meshes of a perplexity, as visible as if it were a veritable network, at Gladys, who was standing in the recess of the bay-window, a book in her hand.