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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Fine white bread; manchet.

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  • “Last week though, my friends Stevie and Joseph opened The Dock Kitchen in the Tom Dixon development on Portobello Dock, and over the weekend I called in to bake some cakes - date slice, Victoria sponge with poached figs, cream and honey, and a strange sort of dry ginger cake-bread which was nice, it transpired, toasted and spread with Nutella.”

    Scones For Breakfast, Scones for Tea

  • “The boatmen kept the kettle boiling and some cake-bread baking in the hot ashes.”

    Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco

  • “However, a new table was soon brought forth, placed close by the cool margin of the water, and covered in a trice with tankards of hippocras, pigment, ale, and some Gascon, as well as British wines: varieties of the delicious cake-bread for which England was then renowned; while viands, strange to the honest eye and taste of the wealthy Kent man, were served on spits.”

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete

  • “But devil a cockney charged up to my bonny bay, poor lass, to rescue little cake-bread; they only cried haro, and out upon me.””

    Woodstock

  • “But devil a cockney charged up to my bonny bay, poor lass, to rescue little cake-bread; they only cried haro, and out upon me. ”

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

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