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cof•fee•cake
(kô′fē kāk′, kof′ē-),USA pronunciation n.
- Fooda cake or sweetened bread, often flavored with cinnamon and made or topped with nuts, raisins, candied fruit, etc., and glazed with melted sugar, usually served with coffee.
- coffee + cake 1875–80, American.
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