rusk

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In front of Mrs. Minister stood a very large yellow bowl filled with what she called rusk -- a preparation unfamiliar to me, made by browning and crushing the crusts of bread and then rolling them down into a coarse meal.

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  1. noun A light, soft-textured sweetened biscuit.
  2. noun Sweet raised bread dried and browned in an oven.

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  • Expect her to pop up in the sluice just as you were slopping something unsavoury out in the wrong sink, ( 'scoop it out nurse and put it where it belongs') or perhaps the Treatment Room as you by-passed washing down that trolley or caught you with your head in the linen cupboard eating a dry Farley's rusk (we were always starving, I've drunk a bottle of Cow & Gate baby milk before now). —  Brit Lit Blogs
  • Mix one cup grated dried rusk, one cup grated almonds, one teaspoonful baking powder. —  The Community Cook Book
  • But it seemed to him, as he sat there, that it would be die; for not one "head" could he call up clearly, and ever and anon his wife would cry out for wood or water, or to state some fact concerning her cake or chickens Just now her rusk was the all-absorbing topic of thought. —  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
  • Not only had he most intelligently brought me a fresh ice, but he had brought the particular kind of rusk for which I had asked. —  Your United States Impressions of a first visit
  • And here lay the rusk, magically obtained. —  Your United States Impressions of a first visit
 

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  1. Spanish or Portuguese rosca, coil, rusk, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *rotisca, diminutive of Latin rota, wheel; see rotate.

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  1. Prob. from Spanish rosca, a screw, anything round and spiral (rosca de pan, or simply rosca, a roll or twist of bread; cf. rosca de mar, sea-rusk, a kind of biscuit; diminutive rosquete, a pancake, rosquilla, roll of bread, etc.), = Portuguese rosca, a screw, the winding or wriggling of a serpent; origin unknown.
  2. from rusk, n.
 

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