breadstuff

[ bred-stuhf ]

noun

1. grain, flour, or meal for making bread.
2. any kind of bread.

Word History and Origins

Origin of breadstuff¹

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; bread + stuff

Example Sentences

Near a place called Archaha, he took a brigantine laden with cassavi, the Indian breadstuff, and a small quantity of wine.

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Three hundred pounds of breadstuff were required for each person.

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Here the troops suffered as seldom during the war for provisions, especially breadstuff.

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I breathed the flour, and drank the flour, and felt myself to be enveloped in a world of breadstuff.

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That its capital and only large city should be without breadstuff as early as July, 1915, was hard to believe, yet a fact.

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