manchet
Americannoun
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a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
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Chiefly Dialect. a piece or small loaf of such bread.
Etymology
Origin of manchet
1375–1425; late Middle English mainchet; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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I have brought a manchet in my pouch, and cheese withal, as I came hurrying; for I thought, she will be hungry.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
A manchet was a cake of the best bread.
From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt
Your oven must not be hotter than for manchet.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Bake them in an oven as hot as for manchet, and stop it up close.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
If any offendor escape from the Lieutenant into the Buttery, and bring into the Hall a manchet upon the point of a knife, he is pardoned: for the buttry in that case is a sanctuary.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
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