madeira sponge

1. 1.

   a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine

   SynonymsMadeira cake

   Broadersponge cake

Questions about madeira sponge

What does madeira sponge mean?

madeira sponge means "a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine".

What is another word for madeira sponge?

Close synonyms include Madeira cake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is madeira sponge a common word?

madeira sponge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.