bread : Idioms & Phrases

• etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. Eng.

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• noun a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses
  

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• bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

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• noun moist bread containing banana pulp
  

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• noun soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern)
  batter bread.
  

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• noun bread made of coarse rye flour
  pumpernickel.
  

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• 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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• noun the financial means whereby one lives
  living; support; livelihood; sustenance; keep.
  
  • each child was expected to pay for their keep
  • he applied to the state for support
  • he could no longer earn his own livelihood

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• (fig.), means of living.

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• noun thinly sliced sweet pickles
  

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• noun a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced
  breadboard.
  

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• noun any of various doughs for bread
  

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• noun a knife used to cut bread
  

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• noun a queue of people waiting for free food
  breadline.
  

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• noun someone who bakes bread or cake
  baker.
  

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• noun a mold of the genus Rhizopus
  Rhizopus nigricans.
  

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• noun creamy white sauce made with bread instead of flour and seasoned with cloves and onion
  

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• . See Breadfruit.

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• noun an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
  pocketbook issue.
  

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• noun a container used to keep bread or cake in
  breadbox.
  

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• noun a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup
  breadstick.
  

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• verb have a meal, usually with company
  
  • The early Christian disciples broke bread together

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• noun bread made with whole wheat flour
  brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread.
  
• 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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• (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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• . See Brown bread, under Brown.

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• noun bread containing caraway seeds
  

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• noun bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins
  

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• bread made of Indian meal.

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• noun bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine
  

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• noun Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
  shamrock; Oxalis acetosella; common wood sorrel.
  

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• noun bread made with whole wheat flour
  brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread.
  

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• noun bread containing chopped dates
  

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• noun bread containing chopped dates and nuts
  

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• noun somewhat astringent paste prepared by grinding and heating seeds of the African wild mango; a staple food of some African peoples
  

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• bread bestowed as alms. Obs.

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• noun (Judaism) a Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days from Nissan 15) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
  Passover; Pesach; Pesah.
  

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• noun a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes
  

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• noun usually cooked in a skillet over an open fire: especially cornbread with ham bits and sometimes Irish soda bread
  fry bread.
  

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• noun French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven
  

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• noun bread made with gluten flour
  

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• bread containing a large proportion of gluten; used in cases of diabetes.

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• noun bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour
  

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Gra"ham bread"

Etymology

From Sylvester Graham, a lecturer on dietetics.

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1. Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. U. S. Bartlett.

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• oaten bread.

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• .(Bot.) See Sow bread.

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• noun thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot
  Hottentot bread.
  

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• noun South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
  Dioscorea elephantipes; tortoise plant; elephant's-foot; Hottentot bread vine.
  

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• noun thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot
  Hottentot bread.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.

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• noun South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
  Dioscorea elephantipes; tortoise plant; elephant's-foot; Hottentot bread vine.
  

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• bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. Obs.

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• . (Bot.) Same as Cassava.

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• noun round loaf made with soda and buttermilk; often containing caraway seeds and raisins
  

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• noun unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends
  

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• noun (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds
  Jewish rye.
  

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• noun South African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food
  Encephalartos caffer.
  

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• noun bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
  light bread.
  

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• noun a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
  loaf.
  

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• noun African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
  sour gourd.
  

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Mon"key-bread` noun

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1. (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.

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• noun African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
  Adansonia digitata; baobab.
  

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• (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of Australia (Mylitta australis), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger.

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• noun bread containing chopped nuts
  

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• noun bread containing finely minced onions
  

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• noun very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
  ship biscuit; hardtack; sea biscuit; pilot biscuit.
  

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• ship biscuit.

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• noun usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
  pita.
  

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• noun breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking
  

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• noun bread containing raisins
  

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• noun any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour
  

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• heavy bread. Scot. & Local, U.S.

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• . (Bot.) See Carob.

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• noun powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute
  carob powder; carob.
  

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• noun white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp
  

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• noun small tough woody zamia of Florida and West Indies and Cuba; roots and half-buried stems yield an arrowroot
  Florida arrowroot; Zamia pumila; coontie.
  

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• noun usually cooked in a skillet over an open fire: especially cornbread with ham bits and sometimes Irish soda bread
  fry bread.
  

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• noun cornbread usually containing ham or bacon bits and cooked in a skillet
  

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• noun made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
  sour bread.
  

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• noun made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
  sour bread.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Cyclamen.

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• noun soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern)
  batter bread.
  

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• noun a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind
  Swedish rye.
  

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• noun sweetened buns to be eaten with tea
  

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• bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. Prov. Eng.

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• noun slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
  rusk; zwieback; Brussels biscuit.
  

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• noun brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
  matzo; matzoh; matzah.
  

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• noun bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
  light bread.
  

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• adjective satellite of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
  
  • white-bread America
  • a white-bread college student

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• noun bread made with whole wheat flour
  brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread.
  

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• noun bread made with whole wheat flour
  brown bread; dark bread; whole meal bread.
  

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