Naples biscuit

English

Noun

Naples biscuit (plural Naples biscuits)

  1. (now historical) A type of biscuit flavoured with rosewater.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 66:
      After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
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