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Simnel

noun

A crisp bread of fine white flour.

A fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas.

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"Simnel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Earl of Warwick had escaped from the Tower gave an opportunity for an imposter, Lambert Simnel, to personate the earl. In order to satisfy the Londoners that the rumour of Warwick's escape was a fabrication, Henry caused his prisoner to be paraded through the streets of the city, and exposed to public view at St. Paul's. After Simnel's defeat (16 June, 1487), ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

Words linked to "Simnel" : United Kingdom, bread, Britain, breadstuff, UK, staff of life, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, fruitcake, Great Britain, U.K.