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Definition of wedding cake
1 : a usually elaborately decorated and tiered cake made for the celebration of a wedding
2 : something (such as a large building) resembling a wedding cake especially in elaborate ornamentation
Examples of wedding cake in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The farm would usually have relied on cut-flower sales to event florists in New York City and on Mr. McCurdy’s wedding cake sales.
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Gareth Henderson, The Christian Science Monitor, "How Vermont farm turned being a good neighbor into good business," 25 June 2020 The latter argument cites a recent Supreme Court case in which the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple due to his religious beliefs.
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NBC News, "Adoption agency should be able to reject gay couples, Trump administration argues," 4 June 2020 Ryan argues that when society makes compromises as various people seek rights (e.g., a gay couple trying to buy a wedding cake from a Christian cake maker), usually the bigoted win.
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Amitai Etzioni, The New York Review of Books, "Just Say No," 26 Mar. 2020 In addition to the couple’s traditional 10-tiered white wedding cake with gold accents, Tebow had a groom’s cake that would fit into his diet: a Keto-friendly cheesecake.
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Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, "Steak! Cheesecake! Salads! All About Tim Tebow’s ‘Keto-Friendly’ Wedding Reception," 23 Jan. 2020 Cherbourg Cyprus at Findlay Market is preparing a wedding cake for free.
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Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, "Couple is gifted $30,000 wedding one month after their 'kidney anniversary'," 1 Nov. 2019 In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court found for Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who had refused to make a gay couple a wedding cake on religious grounds.
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Tara Law, Time, "9 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Shaped LGBTQ Rights in America," 8 Oct. 2019 In 2012, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips refused to bake a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins.
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The Denver Post, "Colorado’s biggest stories of the past decade," 31 Dec. 2019 The wedding cakes were individual tarte Tropéziennes and, following the wabi-sabi theme, were customized with each guest’s name in different colors (the stencils were hand-designed by Jean-Baptiste who also created the place settings).
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Vogue, "Stylist Lolita Jacobs’s Effortlessly Chic Wedding in the South of France," 26 July 2018
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