Bakemeats

/ˈbeɪkmiːts/ noun

Definition

Plural of bakemeat; multiple baked meat dishes, pies, or pastries containing meat.

Etymology

Regular plural of bakemeat, a compound noun from Middle English 'bake' and 'meat.'

Kelly Says

'Bakemeats' appears in Hamlet when Hamlet sarcastically comments on his mother's remarriage—'The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables'—showing Shakespeare used this real medieval term.

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