marzipan
noun/ˈmɑːzɪpæn/
/ˈmɑːrzɪpæn/
[uncountable]- a sweet substance, sometimes with yellow colour added, made from almonds, sugar and eggs and used to make sweets and to cover cakesTopics Foodc2Word Originlate 15th cent. (as marchpane): from Italian marzapane, perhaps from Arabic. The form marchpane (influenced by March and obsolete pain ‘bread’) was more usual until the late 19th cent., when marzipan (influenced by German Marzipan) displaced it.
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