Associations to the word «Pontefract»

Wiktionary

PONTEFRACT, proper noun. A town in West Yorkshire, England.
PONTEFRACT CAKE, noun. A small, disc-shaped sweet with an impressed castle, made from locally grown liquorice.
PONTEFRACT CAKES, noun. Plural of Pontefract cake

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats