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marchpane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marchpane \March"pane`\, n. [Cf. It. marzapane,Sp. pan,.
massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis
bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name
of the inventor.]
A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds
and sugar. Called also marzipan. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) marzipan
WordNet
n. almond paste and egg whites [syn: marzipan]
Usage examples of "marchpane".
There Professor Marchpane, acting in collaboration with the school of mines, had reopened the glass factory at Crystal Lip, and had rebuilt the old blast furnaces at Carbontown.
But over the course of a few minutes the color shifted somewhat, became deeper, blacker, redder, according to the cycle of the Marchpane convection.
From above Marchpane could see the tenders in their helmets and their insulated suits, standing in a line upon the concrete rim of the containment reservoir, raking off the distilled brandy-glass.
As the metal cage had sunk down through the scaffolding, Marchpane had felt the temperature rise.
Cathartes was smiling, and Marchpane was amazed to see his hair still dry, his uniform still crisply pressed.
It was this miner that Marchpane was seeking on the night of the sixty-seventh of September.
But Marchpane thought it was important to show himself among the miners from time to time, so that they could understand the human face of power.
At the same time, Marchpane had taken advantage of the absence of the Board to implement some new reforms.
Oblivious to this, oblivious to the speculation in the faces that surrounded them, Marchpane and Cathartes continued on.
Through the bars of the cage, Marchpane saw among the layers of schist a seam of glass catch at the lamplight, and then another.
They mixed into one another, and from time to time Marchpane could see the fugitive reflection of his face as he pressed up against the bars.
It was the access tunnel to the Ranbagh Lode: almost a thousand feet straight through into the pit, and Marchpane could hear the gas hammers of the miners as they labored on the face.
And when the tunnel divided he went to the left, while Marchpane and Cathartes continued straight.
Elsewhere along the face the surface of the ore was lit with arc lamps and magnesium flares, and Marchpane could see the figures of the miners made gigantic and grotesque by their harsh shadows on the glass.
A bluish underwater light pierced through it from the pit, vanishing when Marchpane lit the lantern on the table.