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MARCHPANE, or MARZIPAN

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 691 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MARCHPANE, or MARZIPAN , a sweetmeat made of sweet almonds and
sugar
  pounded and worked into a paste, and moulded into various shapes, or used in the icing of cakes, &c. The best marchpane comes from Germany, that from
Konigsberg
  being celebrated. The origin of the word has been much discussed. It is common in various forms in most
European
 
languages
 , Romanic or Teutonic; Italian has marzapane, French massepain, and
German
  marzipan, which has in
English
  to some extent superseded the true
English
  form "marchpane." Italian seems to have been the source from which the word passed into other
languages
 . In Johann Burchard's Diarium curiae romanae (14831492) the Latin form appears as martiapanis (Du Cange, Glossarium s.v.), and Minshseu explains the word as Martins panis, bread of Mars, from the " towers, castles and such like " that appeared on elaborate works of the confectioner's art made of this sweatmeat. Another derivation is that from Gr. ,u4a, barley cake, and Lat. panis. A connexion has been sought with the name of a Venetian coin, matapanus (Du Cange, s.v.), on which was a figure of Christ enthroned, struck by Enrico
Dandolo
 , doge of Venice (11921205). From the coin the word was applied to a small box, and hence apparently to the sweet-
meat
  contained in it.


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