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BARMBRACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barmbrack mean? 

BARMBRACK (noun)
  The noun BARMBRACK has 1 sense:

1. a rich currant cake or bunplay

  Familiarity information: BARMBRACK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BARMBRACK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rich currant cake or bun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("barmbrack" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Domain region:

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)


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