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What is "pound cake"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pound cake
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After ripening, use as a topping for pudding, pound cake or ice cream.
▪ He puts butter on already buttery things like croissants and pound cake.
▪ His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake.
▪ I got a pound cake from Patience mailed in September.
▪ She had been in the midst of baking a pound cake and it had come out too heavy.
▪ She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake.
Wiktionary
pound cake

n. (context US English) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.

WordNet
pound cake

n. rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour

Wikipedia
Pound cake

Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. However, any cake made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio, by weight, of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar may also be called a pound cake, as it yields the same results. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold, and served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or sometimes with a coat of icing.

Usage examples of "pound cake".

And three desserts, so everyone might have his choice, chocolate layer cake, vanilla blanc mange and pound cake topped with sweet whipped cream.

I paced behind her in the kitchen, watching the leftovers bag fill with packets of meat and potatoes, a jar of gravy, half a green-bean casserole, a jar of red cabbage, a pound cake.

The linen cover was off the platter, revealing a pound cake, drizzled with some kind of yellow icing.

Linen doilies, matching tea napkins, thin slices of pound cake, a silver dish of mints-how did you do this in three minutes or less?

Linen doilies, matching tea napkins, thin slices of pound cake, a silver dish of mints—.

The huge slice of pound cake and the scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream they give you for dessert in Mother Crunch on First Avenue.

They were sitting at the kitchen table, with a plate of thinly sliced pound cake and an open jar of jam handy.

The time I spent in the kitchen, slicing pound cake, dishing up mints, setting out coffee service, cream and sugar, transferring coffee from the kitchen-range coffee-pot into a silver `company' serving-pot - this busy-ness gave me time to pull myself together, not expose my own rut and (I hoped) cover some of my body odour simply by the odours of food and the fact that female clothing in those days was all-encompassing.