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ba⋅ba

  [bah-buh; Fr. ba-ba]
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–noun, plural -bas  [-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
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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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