manchet
[man-chit]
- a kind of white bread made from the finest flour.
- Chiefly Dialect. a piece or small loaf of such bread.
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Origin of manchet
1375–1425; late Middle English mainchet; origin uncertain
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Examples from the Web for manchet
Historical Examples
Bake them in an oven as hot as for manchet, and stop it up close.
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;Charlotte Campbell Bury
A chine of beef, a manchet, and a chet loaf was a breakfast for the three.
Nineteen Centuries of Drink in EnglandRichard Valpy French
Cuff said the dictionary was slag, manchet, oorveeg and handboei.
An Irishman's Difficulties with the Dutch LanguageN.A. Cuey-na-Gael
Manchet was so obviously French that I never looked at it twice.
An Irishman's Difficulties with the Dutch LanguageN.A. Cuey-na-Gael
She disregarded every costly cover that cometh to the table, and taketh little but manchet and succory pottage.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethLucy Aikin