French toast

American  

noun

• French toasts
  plural

1. bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.

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French toast British  

noun

1. toast cooked on one side only

2. bread dipped in beaten egg and lightly fried

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• French toasts
  plural

Etymology

Origin of French toast

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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French toast

Dessert revives malt bread as French toast alongside sea buckthorn and pumpkin held through autumn and sharpened into sorbet.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

“It’s happened that way,” Davis said over a late breakfast of French toast and bacon at a diner not far from the Las Vegas strip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

The Toast-Yay! cookies, French toast flavor and dipped in icing, debuted in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

France double dips his homemade French toast, first in an egg mixture combined with half-and-half, whole milk, cinnamon and powdered sugar and then into shredded coconut.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025

“Tell you what, you could make French toast every day between now and then, to make it up to us.”

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix