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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Who are to pluck the golden pippins—who are to smack lips at the golden fish—who are to chew the fine manchet loaves of Downing-street?
From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various
"The carpes of venison are very good this morning, sir," he said confidentially, while one serving-man brought a great piece of manchet bread and another filled Johnnie's flagon with ale.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Had I not brought the manchet myself, and watched thee narrowily, I should have guessed thou hadst crammed some secret message therein to the camp.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
And in the hands of the maiden was a quantity of white bread, and she had some manchet bread in her veil, and she came into the chamber.
From The Mabinogion Vol. 2 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
The Seruis, eight morsels of the flesh of a Pheasant rosted lying in the grauie, and withall so many pieces of fine white manchet.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
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