marchpane Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun almond paste and egg whites
    marzipan.

WordNet

March"pane` noun
Etymology
Cf. It. marzapane,Sp. pan,. massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name of the inventor.
Definitions
  1. A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. Obs. = marzipan Shak.

Webster 1913