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Definition of Brown bread

1. Noun. Bread made with whole wheat flour.

2. Noun. Dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water.

Definition of Brown bread

1. Noun. Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread. ¹

2. Adjective. (idiomatic Cockney rhyming slang) dead ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Bread

brown bag brown bagged brown bagging brown bags brown bastard brown bastards brown bat brown bear brown bears brown bells

brown bent brown bill brown bits brown bomber brown bombers brown bread (current term) brown bullhead brown cheese brown cheeses brown cloud

brown coal brown creeper brown cup brown dwarf brown dwarfs brown dwarves brown eye brown eyes brown fat

Literary usage of Brown bread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1865)
"Breakfast—Meat hash, brown bread and coffee. Dinner—Baked beans and pork, ... Dinner—Stewed peas and pork, and brown bread, Supper—White bread and ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"Corned beef, warm brown bread, flour, bread and coffee. Dinner. ... Flour bread, warm brown bread, molasses and coffee. Dinner.—Corned beef, vegetables aud ..."

3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"brown bread Pudding. Half a pound of stale brown bread grated, ditto of currants, ditto of shred suet, sugar and nutmeg; mix with four eggs, a spoonful of ..."

4. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... with Potatoes—brown bread—Boston brown bread—Buttermilk Bread—Graham Bread— Rye Bread—Rye and Indian Bread—Salt-Rising Bread—Whole Wheat Bread— Bread ..."

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