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- noun Attributive form of
birthday cake
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Examples
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It was a happy nine-year-old boy who later strolled about with his postcard, knowing about the birthday-cake picture that had been named "Sol", hanging on the wall.
Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010
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It was a happy nine-year-old boy who later strolled about with his postcard, knowing about the birthday-cake picture that had been named "Sol", hanging on the wall.
Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010
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As various couples bicker and struggle with love, sex, marriage, and alcohol, three friends on a fishing trip (Fred Ward, Buck Henry, and Huey Lewis) find a woman's dead body but decide not to report it, an aging philanderer (Jack Lemmon) confesses his infidelities while his grandson lies comatose after an auto accident, and a birthday-cake baker (Lyle Lovett) seethes with anger over a trivial slight.
John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011
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As various couples bicker and struggle with love, sex, marriage, and alcohol, three friends on a fishing trip (Fred Ward, Buck Henry, and Huey Lewis) find a woman's dead body but decide not to report it, an aging philanderer (Jack Lemmon) confesses his infidelities while his grandson lies comatose after an auto accident, and a birthday-cake baker (Lyle Lovett) seethes with anger over a trivial slight.
John Farr: Remembering Robert Altman John Farr 2011
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It was a happy nine-year-old boy who later strolled about with his postcard, knowing about the birthday-cake picture that had been named "Sol", hanging on the wall.
Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010
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It was a happy nine-year-old boy who later strolled about with his postcard, knowing about the birthday-cake picture that had been named "Sol", hanging on the wall.
Marina Cashdan: Exhibition Spotlight: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Work Tables & Tischmatten Marina Cashdan 2010
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Utterly unfamiliar birds in various combinations of turquoise, school-bus orange and birthday-cake green flitted constantly from branch to branch or darted across the open sky, and as he encountered each new variety, he gave it a name: ghost robin, squigilum, happyflap, Terpsichore crow.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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Like Whitewater and some of the other issues bedeviling the Clinton administration, this one has the unmistakable character of those trick birthday-cake candles that just keep reigniting.
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Nothing matters but power, your power, your personal, cynical, hideous power, and even though the levees haven't been rebuilt and the city is set to drown again because of your birthday-cake baking friends, you'll happily go stand in front of it if it'll make you look one inch more presidential.
I Never Post About Politics, But This Is Too Much yuki_onna 2008
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There is almost nothing more delightful than that first birthday-cake smeared picture.
OK, so tomorrow I’ll shut up about her birthday already… | Her Bad Mother 2006
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