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ba⋅ba
[bah-buh; Fr. ba-ba] 
–noun, plural -bas [-buh
z; Fr. -ba] .
[-buhz; Fr. -ba] . | a spongelike cake leavened with yeast and often containing raisins, baked in a small mold and then usually soaked with a rum syrup. |
Origin:
1820–30; < F < Pol: lit., old woman, peasant woman; the cake was introduced into France by the court of the exiled Polish king Stanislaus I
1820–30; < F < Pol: lit., old woman, peasant woman; the cake was introduced into France by the court of the exiled Polish king Stanislaus I
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| ba·ba (bä'bə) n. A leavened rum cake, usually made with raisins. [French, from Polish, old woman.] |
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