Simnel definition

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A crisp bread made of fine wheat flour.
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A rich fruitcake sometimes covered with almond paste and traditionally eaten at mid-Lent, Easter, and Christmas.
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In England,
  • A kind of bread or roll formerly prepared by boiling, or boiling and baking.
  • A rich fruitcake traditionally eaten in mid-Lent or at Easter or Christmas.
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Simnel cake.
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Noun

Singular:
simnel
Plural:
simnels

Origin of simnel

  • Middle English from Old French siminel from Medieval Latin siminellus ultimately from Latin simila fine flour semolina

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Simnel Sentence Examples

  • They usually took as a present for their mother a small cake known as a simnel.

  • In Gloucestershire simnel cakes are still common; and at Usk, Monmouth, the custom of mothering is still scrupulously observed.

  • A young Oxford priest, Richard Symonds by name, conceived the project of putting forward the boy Simnel to impersonate one of these princes as a claimant for the crown, with the idea of thereby procuring for himself the archbishopric of Canterbury.

  • The Yorkists had many adherents in Ireland, and thither Lambert Simnel was taken by Symonds early in 1487; and, gaining the support of the earl of Kildare, the archbishop of Dublin, the lord chancellor and a powerful following, who were, or pretended to be, convinced that the boy was the earl of Warwick escaped from the Tower, Simnel was crowned as King Edward VI.

  • In Flanders, Lincoln joined Lord Lovell, who had headed an unsuccessful Yorkist rising in 1486, and in May 1487 the two lords proceeded to Dublin, where they landed a few days before the coronation of Lambert Simnel.

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