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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. It.

marzapane

,Sp.

pan

massepain

, prob. fr. L.

maza

frumenty (Gr.

μᾶζα

) + 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.

Noun.

[L. panis, bread.]

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit. [Not used.]

marchpane ‎(usually uncountable, plural marchpanes)