Sim"nel (?), n. [OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL. simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semolina.]
1.
A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.
[Obs.]
Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels.
Fuller.
2.
A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.
[Eng.]
Herrick.
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