pitta bread

pitta

/ (ˈpɪtə) /

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noun

a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with foodAlso called: Arab bread, Greek bread

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Word Origin for pitta bread

from Modern Greek: a cake

Words nearby pitta bread

pit-sawn, pit scale, pit stop, Pitt, pitta, pitta bread, Pittacus, pittance, pitted, pitted keratolysis, pitter-patter

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How to use pitta bread in a sentence

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach.
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“Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.
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For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.
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“I knew Boyfriend would never really have its chance unless it became my bread-and-butter,” she says.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
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In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
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Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.
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Death comes in, the bread at the feast turns black, the hound falls down—and so on.
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He watched the man put some bread and milk in a tin pan, and set it down on the floor of the basket.
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