Etymology
Origin of holy bread
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300
Example Sentences
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It’s a nice touch beneath the stained-glass window of the bakery, which purportedly produces holy bread but doesn’t have bagels on its menu.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Let “virtue” go forth from us, and let it be as holy bread to all who are heavy-laden, and ready to faint.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
This morning we are 306 going to eat together the holy bread; come thou with me.”
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Now, I know a woman made up of holy bread whom St. Paul and St. Peter are fighting to have next them when she goes to Paradise.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
Why, you must have read in the Scriptures that King David and his soldiers once went into the Temple and ate some of the holy bread which only a priest is allowed to eat.
From The King Nobody Wanted by John Lear
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