ba·ba

or ba·ba au rhum (bä′bä ō rŭm′)

A leavened rum cake, usually made with raisins.

[French baba, baba (from Polish, old woman, round Easter cake, from the cake's resemblance to a pleated skirt) + au, with the + rhum, rum.]

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baba

(ˈbɑːbɑː; French baba)

(Cookery) a small cake of leavened dough, sometimes mixed with currants and usually soaked in rum (rum baba)

[C19: from French, from Polish, literally: old woman]

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ba•ba

(ˈbɑ bɑ, -bə)

n., pl. -bas.

a small yeast cake often containing raisins, usu. served soaked in a rum syrup.

[1820–30; < French < Polish: literally, old woman]

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Noun

baba - a small cake leavened with yeast

cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat

baba au rhum, rum baba - a baba soaked in rum

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`Why, it's Ali Baba.' Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy.

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He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.

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one would think one was in the cave of Ali Baba. What is there in them?" he added, putting his lantern on one of the casks.

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The fable with Goethe so affectingly relates under the title of "The Erl- King" was known two thousand years ago in Greece as "The Demos and the Infant Industry." One of the most general and ancient of these myths is that Arabian tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers."

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'There are four of us, with our names painted on a door-post in right of one black hole called a set of chambers,' said Eugene; 'and each of us has the fourth of a clerk--Cassim Baba, in the robber's cave--and Cassim is the only respectable member of the party.'

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[2] See Story of the Blind Man, Baba Abdalla, in Arabian Nights' Entertainment.

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Pundiri baba stared into the glowing ashes of the fire.

The ageless baba

The president of the Red Cross said the decision to deny aid groups access to Baba Amr is "unacceptable".

Syrian authorities stop Red Cross aid convoy in its tracks

en er w n e t f pounds 4M BABA BHOY BDiawara swoop and Neil watches Rhodes too Exclusive By Craig Swan k But the ex-Fir Park stopper reckons Diawara has vastly improved since the Hoops pulled the plug on a pounds 2million bid and has become a top-class striker.

Baba's got the lot now Bhoys