Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a wafer: as, a wafery thinness.
- noun Wafers collectively; pastry; cakes.
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Examples
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It was not till comparatively recent times that the wafery, a special department of the royal kitchen, where the confectionery and pastry were prepared, was discontinued.
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"Allow me," said Mr. Raleigh, taking her plate and bringing it back directly with a wafery slice of bread and a quaking tumulus of jelly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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"You ought to remember we're not used to these things," Wally protested, waving away a strange erection of cream, icing and wafery pastry.
Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918
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Then lemonade and wafery little cakes were brought in, that the puzzlers might refresh themselves.
Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902
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I believe that every eye in the room followed them and watched till they curled and crinkled into black, wafery ashes.
Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 1898
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At Easter the clerk used to leave at the house of each pew-holder a packet of Easter cakes -- thin wafery biscuits, not unlike
The Parish Clerk 1892
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This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper, and all settled themselves with a smiling satisfaction, prophetic of great powers and an equal willingness to employ them.
Moods Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Kit Kat Wasabi is creamy and wafery, just like a regular Kit Kat bar.
Wifely Steps Toni 2010
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The inside is, of course, the classic Ferrero wafery orb, and within that we have a machine-injected blob of chocolatey creamy stuff which also disappears fairly rapidly.
Chocablog 2009
whichbe commented on the word wafery
I don't waffle on issues, but I do wafer.
October 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word wafery
Argh!
Good one.
October 10, 2008