cheesecake
Also cheese cake . a cake having a firm custardlike texture, made with cream cheese, cottage cheese, or both, and sometimes topped with a jamlike fruit mixture.
Informal.Also called leg art. photographs featuring scantily clothed attractive women.
Origin of cheesecake
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How to use cheesecake in a sentence
She fusses around hospitably, offering radishes, cucumbers, spring onions—and some delicious cheesecakes.
Real milk was necessary to make cheesecakes and ice cream and other delicious confections much adored in the Greedy Kingdom.
She took from her sleeve two cheesecakes, and threw them down to him.
A Russian Proprietor | Lyof N. TolstoiI thought Mrs. Middleton allowed us a great many good things; but she does not send us cheesecakes and tarts of an evening.
Stories for Helen | Eliza LeslieThis porphyry, those marbles are fine; I say nothing to the contrary; but our cheesecakes at Amiens are far better in my mind.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois Rabelais
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for 25 cheesecakes.
British Dictionary definitions for cheesecake
/ (ˈtʃiːzˌkeɪk) /
a rich tart with a biscuit base, filled with a mixture of cream cheese, cream, sugar, and often sultanas, sometimes having a fruit topping
slang women displayed for their sex appeal, as in photographs in magazines, newspapers, or films: Compare beefcake
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