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- noun Plural form of
rusk .
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Examples
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The coffee is soon made, and the simple meal begins; it consists of "rusks," a kind of bread baked until it becomes crisp and hard, and plenty of steaming hot coffee.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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The table was laid for one, the charlotte "rusks" and "lemming" turn-over -- each on a separate plate -- which Nick had been commissioned to procure, earlier in the evening, from the Palmetto restaurant, looming up prominently in the centre; and on another plate were some chipped beef and biscuits.
The Girl of the Golden West David Belasco 1892
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For breakfast, I have: an enormous homemade latté, made with Illy coffee, non-fat half and half plus 1 percent milk, and sweetened with Truvia; a low-fat pro-biotic yogurt; one teaspoon Kyo Green Powdered Drink Mix in one cup of grapefruit juice; a piece of fruit or a sliced tomato; and five little whole-wheat rusks from Italy smeared with Benecol and Marmite.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: How This 60-Year-Old Yogini Lost 40 lbs After Spinal Fusion Surgery Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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For breakfast, I have: an enormous homemade latté, made with Illy coffee, non-fat half and half plus 1 percent milk, and sweetened with Truvia; a low-fat pro-biotic yogurt; one teaspoon Kyo Green Powdered Drink Mix in one cup of grapefruit juice; a piece of fruit or a sliced tomato; and five little whole-wheat rusks from Italy smeared with Benecol and Marmite.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: How This 60-Year-Old Yogini Lost 40 lbs After Spinal Fusion Surgery Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012
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Like many stars who cut their teeth on the fresh rusks of the Premier League, Anelka is well adapted to the ways of the press.
Carlos Tevez may still have a role at City – the proactive scapegoat Harry Pearson 2011
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I would let him have the teething rusks and put a small bowl of baby food on the tray and try to get him to dip into fruits and what not?
How To Feed A Baby And Not Lose Consciousness Trying | Her Bad Mother 2008
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Not sure if this was mentioned or will be at all helpful, but my 8mo daughter took to cheerios and rice rusks BEFORE solids and it helped fill her up! she just seems to be obsessed with the whole “do it my self” thing already.
How To Feed A Baby And Not Lose Consciousness Trying | Her Bad Mother 2008
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On the solid food thing, he started eating anything he can hold for himself, bananas, hard biscuits, rusks.
How To Feed A Baby And Not Lose Consciousness Trying | Her Bad Mother 2008
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The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
Flotilla raid diary: 'A man is shot. I am seeing it happen' Henning Mankell 2010
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The Allenburys Feeder was so ubiquitious at one time that when a Royal Dolls House was commissioned for Queen Mary by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the 1920s, it included a miniature Allenburys Feeder just one inch long, along with a mini food measure, food tin and rusks tin.
Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law's House: Kid Stuff ewillett 2008
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