Brown bread Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun bread made with whole wheat flour
    dark bread; whole meal bread; whole wheat bread.
  2. noun dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water
    Boston brown bread.

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Definitions
  1. (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread . "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic." Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. U.S.

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