Crossword clues for simnel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simnel \Sim"nel\, n. [OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL. simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semolina.]
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A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.]
Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels.
--Fuller. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [Eng.]
--Herrick.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sweet cake," c.1200, from Old French simenel "fine wheat flour; flat bread cake, Lenten cake," probably by dissimilation from Vulgar Latin *siminellus (also source of Old High German semala "the finest wheat flour," German Semmel "a roll"), a diminutive of Latin simila "fine flour" (see semolina).
Wiktionary
n. simnel cake
WordNet
n. a crisp bread of fine white flour
a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "simnel".
WHEN MR SIMNEL COMES TO COLLECT THE BITS IN THE MORNING HE WILL PROBABLY BE LOOKING FOR THIS, he said, and dropped something small and bevelled into her hand.
Lambert Simnel, a youth of fifteen years of age, who was son of a baker, and who, being endowed with understanding above his years, and address above his condition, seemed well fitted to personate a prince of royal extraction.
Simon, taking advantage of this rumor, had at first instructed his pupil to assume that name, which he found to be so fondly cherished by the public: but hearing afterwards a new report, that Warwick had made his escape from the Tower, and observing that this news was attended with no less general satisfaction, he changed the plan of his imposture, and made Simnel personate that unfortunate prince.
Athanasius had placed a parcel of simnel bread and rammel cheese, with a small flask of the famous blue-sealed Abbey wine.
It was my office to see that all were well supplied with the drinks they preferred, while the waiting maids were handing the simnel and wastel cakes and spiced bread.
His father had to bend with the wind-he forgave Kildare over the Simnel business, and let him govern Ireland because nobody else could.
All these were duly packed away deep in the traveller's scrip, and above them old pippin- faced brother Athanasius had placed a parcel of simnel bread and rammel cheese, with a small flask of the famous blue-sealed Abbey wine.
Besides these dishes of domestic origin, there were various delicacies brought from foreign parts, and a quantity of rich pastry, as well as of the simnel bread and wastle cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.
On Mothering Sunday, when all servants are given leave to visit their mothers, or any credible equivalent, he rides on a borrowed pony to Llanfair, with a present of a Simnel cake, baked in the Castle kitchen, and a gift from the Countess.