Definition of "plum-cake" [plum-cake]

• A cake containing raisins, currants, and often other fruit. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Let who will eat plum-cake and swill hot coffee -- heartburn and other troubles are often the result of this kind of refreshment."
• "“Lord and Lady Tiptoff,” and a great piece of plum-cake; of which, I am sorry to say, Gus ate a great deal too much."
• "On the ‘beaufet’ against the wall stood probably the only object which would have attracted the eye of a local stranger in an otherwise ordinarily furnished room, a great plum-cake guarded as if it were a curiosity by a glass shade of the kind seen in museums — square, with a wooden back like those enclosing stuffed specimens of rare feather or fur."