black bread

American  

noun

1. a coarse-grained dark bread, often sour and made from whole-grain rye flour.

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black bread British  

noun

1. a kind of very dark coarse rye bread

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Example Sentences

The dictator was in a jovial mood and the two spoke for four hours, dining on black bread, potato pancakes and an array of meats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

But some nations had come prepared - Germany brought snacks of salami and black bread.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2023

By using small things: e.g., a slice of the black bread that merely prolonged starvation.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

If the Reuben’s on special, get it — this sandwich, on Dacha’s marvelous housemade black bread, might bring tears to your eyes.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2019

There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin