brown bread
Americannoun
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brown breads
plural
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any bread made of flour darker in color than bolted wheat flour, especially graham or whole wheat bread.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of brown bread
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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From what the BBC can Barnaby Rudge, that notion is good and proper brown bread.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2023
Perhaps she’ll bake — nothing “sourdough fancy,” just her dad’s recipe for brown bread.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
The crusty brown bread that accompanies the meat, seasoned with coriander seed and dotted with circles of fat, is its equal.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
The top recipe of 2019 revealed how to make the very best Irish brown bread in all of Ireland.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2019
The wild- ling was within, seated at her board, spreading butter on a ragged chunk of warm brown bread with his dagger.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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