10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRIDECAKE»
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of ...
The learned are agreed that the bridecake (or dreaming-bread — for they are
synonymous terms) ought to be " placed under the head at bedtime." Some
understand this to mean depositing it under the pillow upon which the head
reposes.
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of ...
The learned are greed that the bridecake (or dreaming-bread — for they re
synonymous terms) ought to be " placed under the >hi at bedtime." Some
understand this to mean demiting it under the pillow upon which the head
reposes. To us ...
3
Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: ...
Among the customs used at marriages, those of the ring and bridecake seem of
the most remote antiquity. Confar- reation and the ringi were used anciently as
binding ceremo- i " Jnnulu» spsmsee dono mitlebatur a viro qui pronuhus dictus.
John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1849
g. d. (Bridecake; by Priam (10630), &c. See Ccelus, Vol. 17, p. 55. 1868 Feb. 11, r
. & w. C.C.1 Bridecake [Alert 21168 'Megsrs.Denchfieid BRIDE, Red ami white,
calved October 21, 1863, Bred by and the property of Mr. J. S. Bult, Dodhill House
...
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Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: ...
This, Blount tells us, is still retained in part with us, by that which is called the
bridecake used at weddings. Moffet, in his Health's Improvement, p. 218, informs
us that "the English, when the bride comes from church, are wont to cast wheat
upon ...
John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1849
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Racing Calendar for ...
Bridecake, by Sweetmeat, out of First-rate Mr T. Parr's ch. c. Carmel, by Loup-
garou — Forest Fly ch. c. Peregrine, by Loup-garou, out of Starling Mr Pedley's
b. c. Settlement, by Cossack, out of Bridal ch.c.Kelpie, byCossack — Child of the
Mist ...
7
Time: a Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature
She kept the bridecake, and enclosed to the gallant captain Gosslett's bill for the
dozen of simkin that excellent firm had sent in to wash it down. Bridecakes are
bores to carry about from place to place, and Miss Archdeacon and her mother ...
8
Select Poems from the Hesperides, ... with ... remarks by J. ...
THE BRIDECAKE. Tms day, my Julia, thou must make For mistress bride the
wedding cake; Knead but the dough, and it will be To paste of almonds tum'd by
thee; Or kiss it thou but once or twice, 'And for the bridecake there'll be spice.
Robert Herrick, J. N., John NOTT (M.D., of Bristol.), 1810
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History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
RALPH BRIDEOAKE, D.D. bishop of Chichester, was the son of Richard
Bridecake of Chetham Hill, near Manchester, and born in the year 1614. He was
educated at Manchester school, and admitted a student of Braseunose College,
His edw ...
Edward Baines, William Robert Whatton, 1836
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
BRIDECAKE, n.s. Ifrom bride and cake.} A ulc distributed to the guests at the
wedding. — With the phant'sies of hey troll, Troll about the bridal bridecake
Round about the bride's stake. Ben Jensen. -The writer, resolved to try his fortune
, fasted ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807