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
This morning we are 306 going to eat together the holy bread; come thou with me.”
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Every New Year's Day the sacristan comes and puts a morsel of the holy bread in her mouth, and that is all she has to live on.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir
Most likely you've had nothing to eat but a mouthful of holy bread.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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 Ball, Alec
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