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
People called to ask how she was, brought her holy bread, told her that in almost all the churches they were offering up prayers for her that day.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
Most likely you've had nothing to eat but a mouthful of holy bread.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
My brothers give her little sums for holy bread and church services, and outraging her religious feelings, she saves that money and sends it in secret to her erring Grigory.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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
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