Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/September 21

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Word of the day
for September 21
mooncake n
  1. A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).

中秋節／中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié) or the Mid-Autumn Festival, during which mooncakes are traditionally eaten, falls on this day in 2021.

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