Lexicographical Neighbors of Carcakes
Literary usage of Carcakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott (1878)
"My mother had ance a bonny Cu'ross girdle, and I thought to have baked carcakes
on it for my puir wean that's dead and gane nae fair way—but we maun a' dee, ..."
2. Culross and Tulliallan: Or, Perthshire on Forth by David Beveridge, John James Dalgleish (1885)
"My mother had ance a bonny Cu'ross girdle, and I thought to have baked carcakes
on it for my puir wean that's dead and gane nae fair way. ..."
3. Romantic Culross, Torryburn, Carnock, Cairneyhill, Saline and Pitfirrane by Andrew S. Cunningham (1902)
"My mither had ance a bonny Cu'ross girdle, and I thought to have baken carcakes
on it for my puir wean that's dead and gane nae fair way. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"The name given to a species of cake baked with butter, used as tea-bread, S.
"Never had there been—such making of carcakes and ..."
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