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trifle
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Dessert of pieces of sponge cake, mixed with jam and fruit and sometimes jelly, soaked in wine or sherry and topped with custard and whipped cream. The present meaning goes back to the 18C. Before that a trifle was a clotted-cream dish, in origin closely connected with the *fool.
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