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brown bread

noun

any bread made of flour darker in color than bolted wheat flour, especially graham or whole wheat bread.

Boston brown bread.

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Origin of brown bread

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Words nearby brown bread

brown bat, brown bear, brown belt, brown bent, brown betty, brown bread, brown bullhead, brown butter, brown canker, brown coal, brown coat

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Example sentences from the Web for brown bread

Zeb recovered at once when she offered him a generous slice of brown-bread, but Dan was too anxious about his father to eat.
The Puritan Twins|Lucy Fitch Perkins
Here the brown-bread kettle boiled over, creating a diversion; and Mirandy gladly rose to set it further back.
Meadow Grass|Alice Brown
I love every bean that was ever baked in Boston; every cod-fish-ball ever fried; and every brown-bread loaf ever baked there.
Caper-Sauce|Fanny Fern
The Beebes had gone—as most of East Wellmouth had gone—to the baked beans and brown-bread supper and sociable at the church.
Galusha the Magnificent|Joseph C. Lincoln

Let the mixture simmer five minutes, then serve hot on wheat bread or brown-bread toast, well browned and buttered.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's|Charles Asbury Stephens

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