SIMNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simnel mean? 

• SIMNEL (noun)
  The noun SIMNEL has 2 senses:

1. a crisp bread of fine white flour

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

  Familiarity information: SIMNEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crisp bread of fine white flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("simnel" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

fruitcake (a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)