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noun
A small, round, oven-baked cake made from a currant-based filling enclosed in puff pastry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cake
History
From the English town of the same name, Eccles, where the cake was first sold commercially in 1793.
