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Dundee|dʌnˈdiː|
[Name of a Scottish city on the Firth of Tay.]
1. Used attrib. to designate a variety of rambling rose.
1837T. Rivers Rose Amateur's Guide 43 The Ayrshire Rose (Rosa Arvensis Hybrida)... Dundee Rambler, is the most double, and one of the best in this division. 1899G. Jekyll Wood & Garden vii. 79 What a fine thing, among the cluster roses, is the old Dundee Rambler!
2. Dundee marmalade: a kind of marmalade manufactured in Dundee (registered as a trade-mark by James Keiller & Son in 1880). Also ellipt.
1856Dickens in Househ. Words 28 June 555/2 Anchovy Paste, Dundee Marmalade, and the whole stock of luxurious helps to appetite. 1962Housewife Apr. 92/2 Their silver-topped jar of Dundee marmalade. 1963C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 59, I do not remember ever seeing him eat any other preserves than Beech's strawberry jam and Keiller's Dundee marmalade. 1964Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 51 The marmalade, too, had a tang which even Henry Blake-Somerset's imported Dundee could not have rivalled.
3. Used attrib. or absol. to designate a kind of rich fruit cake, usually decorated with split almonds.
1892T. F. Garrett Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 234/2 Dundee Cake. Put 1 lb. of butter into a basin..loaf sugar..flour..candied peel..and lastly thirteen eggs. 1920‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. Sept. (1954) 218 A paper parcel that held a very large wedge of cake—of the kind known as Dundee. Ibid., ‘This is the last of our precious Dundee,’ said she,..cutting it so tenderly that it almost seemed an act of cannibalism. 1928M. Lowry Let. (1967) 3, I heard the girl opposite me order some more Dundee cake. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. i. 187 Portia ate doughnuts, shortbread and Dundee cake. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. i. 8 He had always liked cakes, especially rich Dundees. |
