half-quartern

British  

noun

1. a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g

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Example Sentences

"The —— Food Economy Committee were astounded yesterday at the secretary's report of a collier's family of six persons who consumed twenty half-quartern loaves in one week, averaging twenty pounds of bread per person."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various

You are probably not aware that at bakers' shops in the poor quarters the price of the half-quartern loaf varies sometimes from week to week.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

The amount of bread at the present time given away in London under this disposition, supplemented by some smaller bequests, is sixty-eight half-quartern loaves a week.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Students of the half-quartern household loaf will appreciate the niceties involved.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

I asked what the trouble was, and was told the baker had refused to sell his half-quartern loaves under sevenpence, or his quartern loaves under a shilling.

From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)