Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Bread in any form or shape.
- noun Flour, meal, or grain used in the baking of bread.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any kind of grain from which bread is made; meal; flour: generally used in the plural as a commercial term to signify all the different varieties of grain and flour collectively from which bread is made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Flour ,grain (such aswheat oroats ), or anycereal , such as would be used in the making ofbread - noun
bread of any sort
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- noun flour or meal or grain used in baking bread
Etymologies
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Examples
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In most cases the runaway breadstuff is simpler than a gingerbread man: it’s a “thick, fat pancake” in the earliest printed version (from Germany in 1854), a “wee bunnock” in an early Scottish version, a johnny-cake in a tale from the American South.
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Page 49 steered for St. Catharines to obtain Farina, a kind of breadstuff used mostly by the slaves.
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Hot cross buns are a festive food, rather than a common or garden breadstuff, and they deserve to be treated as such.
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Here the runaway breadstuff becomes a lesson for children about carelessness.
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All the versions of “The Runaway Pancake” have the same middle of the story: the breadstuff rolls or runs away from the people who made it.
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If he came back with suitable leaves, then tamales were made; if not, another form of breadstuff was substituted.
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For fear that the crusty breadstuff will appear on an adjoining table?
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If he came back with suitable leaves, then tamales were made; if not, another form of breadstuff was substituted.
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At the present season, a thriving field of Indian corn, now in its most perfect growth and tasselled out, occupies nearly half of the hollow; and it is like the lap of bounteous Nature, filled with breadstuff.
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She is commanded by Lieutenant Ruducoff of the Russian navy, and is here to be freighted with wheat to supply that settlement with breadstuff.
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