Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A delicate sweet cake, formerly much esteemed in England.
- noun A name given to various fine breads suitable for invalids.
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Examples
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They would have clung round her, but she shook them off, and sent Annora in haste for her mother's fan; while Philip arriving with a slice of diet-bread and a cup of sack, the one fanned him, and the other fed him with morsels of the cake soaked in the wine, till he revived, looked up with eyes that were unchanged, and thanked them with a few faltering words, scarcely intelligible to Lucy.
The Chaplet of Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The nicest way to make sponge cake, or diet-bread, is the weight of six eggs in sugar, the weight of four eggs in flour, a little rose-water.
The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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But Harry carried my own bundle, my third bundle, as I was used to call it, to the coach, with some plumb-cake, and diet-bread, made for me over-night, and some sweet-meats, and six bottles of Canary wine, which
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725
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