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Simnel   Listen
noun
Simnel  n.  
1.
A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. (Obs.) "Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels."
2.
A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. (Eng.)





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"Simnel" Quotes from Famous Books



... only known that the youth about whom they were so enthusiastic was no better than a baker's son, named Lambert Simnel, they might ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... powerless to resist the encroachments of the native princes. Nor did the accession of Henry VII. lead to a combined effort for the restoration of English authority. The welcome given by so many of the Anglo-Irish, both laymen and clerics, to the two pretenders, Simnel and Warbeck, and the efforts the king was obliged to make to defend his throne against these claimants, made it impossible for him to undertake the conquest of the country. As a result, the sphere of ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey
... reminiscences, containing some good specimens of schoolboy answers. Some of his howlers have long been known in the North: but a howler (like history) is wont to repeat itself. I saw in a Paisley boy's essay on Lambert Simnel the following sentence: "Lambert Simnel was a claimant for the English crown, and went about the country boasting that he was one of the princes who had been murdered in the Tower." Mr. Kynnersley's examinee wrote thus: ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes


Words linked to "Simnel" :   UK, breadstuff, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, staff of life, bread


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