MARCHPANE

marzipan, marchpane

(noun) almond paste and egg whites

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

marchpane (usually uncountable, plural marchpanes)

Obsolete form of marzipan.

Anagrams

• preachman

Source: Wiktionary


March"pane`, n. Etym: [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.]

Definition: A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. [Obs.]marzipan Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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