marchpane

2 definitions found

marchpane - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Marchpane \March"pane`\, n. [Cf. It. marzapane,Sp. pan,.
     massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis
     bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name
     of the inventor.]
     A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds
     and sugar. Called also marzipan. [Obs.] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

marchpane - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  marchpane
      n 1: almond paste and egg whites [syn: marzipan, marchpane]