Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pudding composed of flour and finely chopped beef suet, with raisins, currants, various spices, and wine, brandy, or rum.
- noun See the extract.
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Examples
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Because she's marrying into the highest possible society, Kate will not wear the traditional garter belt for William to seductively strip off her leg in between the Yorkshire and plum-pudding courses and toss to the present bachelors, according to early indications from royal watchers.
Meredith C. Carroll: New Royal Wedding Details Unveiled Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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Because she's marrying into the highest possible society, Kate will not wear the traditional garter belt for William to seductively strip off her leg in between the Yorkshire and plum-pudding courses and toss to the present bachelors, according to early indications from royal watchers.
Meredith C. Carroll: New Royal Wedding Details Unveiled Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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One among them all, perhaps -- if they could be expected to eat Napoleon cakes at all after plum-pudding.
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Now I must tell you that these cakes were served after every man had put away a quarter of a plum-pudding.
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If you put out your hand to get a plum-pudding and shut it again, you could be sure it was a plum-pudding you had hold of.
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βYes; when people live on poor vegetables instead of roast beef and plum-pudding, their jaws grow large, and their lips grow coarse, like the poor Paddies who eat potatoes.β
The Water Babies 2007
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Lisa, your comment on mathematical analysis reminds me of Tovey: ... like making an exhaustive chemical analysis of a plum-pudding and omitting to ascertain that the cook had boiled it in a cloth
Who Composes, 2 Lisa Hirsch 2007
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We will have roast pheasants and porter, plum-pudding and French wine.
Vanity Fair 2006
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In happy schoolboys he revels; plum-pudding and holidays his needle has engraved over and over again; there is a design in one of the comic almanacs of some young gentlemen who are employed in administering to a schoolfellow the correction of the pump, which is as graceful and elegant as a drawing of Stothard.
George Cruikshank 2006
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Hungry β she took out a cold fowl, some slices of ham, bread, salt, and a most delicious piece of cold plum-pudding, and a little glass of brandy afterwards.
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