maid-of-honour tart

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of maids of honour tart.

    • It was a terribly hot day, and yet that week’s hostess had knocked herself out making maid-of-honour tarts and jam sponge in a kitchen that must have been over one hundred degrees.
    • […] Joan Bennet’s Forces’ Favourites were ‘Raspberry buns, rock cakes, Australian flapjacks, maid-of-honour tarts, and doughnuts.[…]’
    • It was over a maid-of-honour tart that her complacent mood took a turn for the worse – when Robert said in a low sympathetic voice, ‘How is Tessa?’

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