A town in Oxfordshire, England, formerly noted for the number and zeal of its Puritan inhabitants, still for its cakes.
a. 1535. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), II. 299 (D.). Their laws, customs, ceremonies, and Banbury glosses.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. i. 130. Bar. (to Slender) You Banbery Cheese.
1601. Pasquil & Kath., III. 178. Put off your clothes, and you are like a Banbery cheese, Nothing but paring.
1614. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, I. The reverend elder, you told me of, your Banbury man.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., II. ii. (1668), 100. To make Banbury Cakes.
a. 1848. Marryat, R. Reefer, xiii. Had they not trustingly eschewed banbury-cakes.
1863. Sala, Capt. Dang., I. i. 15. I did ever hate your sanctimonious Banbury-man.
