Loaf+of+bread

  • 41bread — [ bred ] noun uncount *** 1. ) a common food made from flour, water, and usually YEAST (=a substance that makes the bread grow larger). Bread is usually sold in a large piece called a loaf or made into smaller pieces called rolls. You usually cut …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 42Loaf — Loaf, n.; pl. {Loaves}. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[=a]f; akin to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ. khlieb , Lith. kl[ e]pas. Cf. {Lady}, {Lammas}, {Lord}.] Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 43Loaf sugar — Loaf Loaf, n.; pl. {Loaves}. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[=a]f; akin to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ. khlieb , Lith. kl[ e]pas. Cf. {Lady}, {Lammas}, {Lord}.] Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped… …

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  • 44Bread Loaf Mountain (Vermont) — Infobox Mountain Name = Bread Loaf Mountain Photo = Bread Loaf Mountain from Otter Creek.jpg Caption = A distant view of Bread Loaf from the Otter Creek, April 2007 Elevation = convert|3835|ft|m|0 Prominence = convert|1430|ft|m|0|abbr=on Location …

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  • 45Bread Loaf Writers' Conference — The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, called by The New Yorker, the oldest and most prestigious writers conference in the country was founded in 1926. It is held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury,… …

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  • 46bread — n. baked food 1) to bake bread 2) to toast bread 3) to break bread with ( to eat with ) 4) fresh; moldy; stale bread 5) black; brown; corn; dark; leavened; rye; sliced; unleavened; wheat; white; whole meal (BE), whole wheat (AE) bread 6) a crust; …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 47loaf — English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 48loaf — English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb …

    Word origins

  • 49bread — {{11}}bread (n.) O.E. bread bit, crumb, morsel; bread, cognate with O.N. brauð, Dan. brèd, O.Fris. brad, M.Du. brot, Du. brood, Ger. Brot). According to one theory [Watkins, etc.] from from P.Gmc. *brautham, which would be from the root of BREW… …

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  • 50bread —    There are two opposing traditions regarding a loaf with holes in it, or a hollow loaf , although neither was noted before the 20th century. A report from West Cornwall held that it meant a death in the family (N&Q 10s:12 (1909), 88), while… …

    A Dictionary of English folklore