rout cake

English

Noun

rout cake (countable and uncountable, plural rout cakes)

  1. (dated) A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      twenty-four little rout cakes that were lying neglected in a plate
    • 2025 May 10, Jemima Kelly, “My week with Jane Austen”, in FT Weekend, Travel, page 7:
      I have visions of roast partridge and rout cakes, but instead we are given a quinoa salad and stone bass. Delicious, albeit not very Austenesque.
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