Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A currant-bun.
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- noun An
Irish yeasted bread withsultanas andraisins .
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- noun a rich currant cake or bun
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nowadays, a barmbrack can be bought in the supermarket but doesn't usually contain all of the above-listed items -- many cakes only contain a ring.
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Another food associated with this festival is fruitcake or bairin breac (barmbrack) which had items in it that were used for foretelling the future -- a pea (or rag) meant poverty, a bean meant wealth, a religious medal meant the finder may enter a convent or seminary, a ring meant marriage, and a stick meant that the person who received this in their slice of cake would be beaten by the marriage partner.
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Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices.
Dubliners 2003
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Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices.
Dubliners James Joyce 1911
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Also two green ware plates, on one of which she puts a barmbrack with a knife beside it.
The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw 1903
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ancestral town of Moneygall, Co Offaly (pop: 298) has come up with a celebratory barmbrack
techno-culture 2009
yarb commented on the word barmbrack
I stood looking at a barmbrack covered with poppy seeds ... it was a confectionary shop in - I forget the name of the street ... behind Liberty's.
- Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down
August 28, 2008