Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bread made of bran, or of unbolted flour.
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Examples
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Of bread, the fifteenth century had several descriptions in use: pain-main or bread of very fine flour, wheat-bread, barley-meal bread, bran-bread, bean-bread, pease-bread, oat-bread or oat-cakes, hard-bread, and unleavened bread.
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He evidently prefers roast-beef and brown-stout to bran-bread and cold water, and has gone so far as to sing the praises of pale-ale.
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Ef you're in want o 'bran-bread at any time, let me know, an' I'm your man, -- Rink by name, an 'Rink by natur'.
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A slouch-hat, crowning hollow eyes and haggard beard, filled him with joy: it marked a bran-bread man and a brother.
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"Let me make the bran-bread of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
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On this plantation the chief article of food for the slaves was bran-bread, although the master's children were kind and often slipped them out meat or other food.
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Wasted, yet daily renewed, enduring, yet murmuring not, he hurled defiance at Fat, scoffed at the vain rage of Jupiter Pinguis, and proffered to the world below a new life in his fiery gift of stale bran-bread.
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Then we sat down to tiffin -- "bull-mate an 'bran-bread," Mulvaney called it -- by the side of the river, and took pot shots at the crocodiles in the intervals of cutting up the food with our only pocket-knife.
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Let him have either bran-bread or Robinson's Patent Groats, or Robinson's Pure Scotch
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“E’en as you like the thoughts of dining on bran-bread and milk-porridge — an extremity which you trust never to be reduced to.
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