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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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 Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
He moistened a manchet of bread from his wine-flask and flung it towards them.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Prayers over, they passed into the sitting-room next door, where they generally found a basket of manchet bread and biscuits, with a large jug of ale or wine.
From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Holt, Emily Sarah
She laughed a little, and, with a great knife, cut a large manchet from the loaf between them.
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox
A manchet was a cake of the best bread.
From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah
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