marchpane
marchpane marzipan. XVI. The various forms, march-, marts-, maza-, -pain(e), -pan(e), repr. diverse Continental forms, as F. †marcepain (mod. massepain), It. marzapane, Sp. mazapan, G. marzipan MARZIPAN (the present current form).
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