raisin bread
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- noun
- /ˈreɪzən brɛd/
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pan de pasas
- Filled with the sweet smell of Polish sausage and home-baked raisin bread, the church seemed less forbidding; perhaps, too, because the agonies of Lent had passed and we no longer had to spend each Friday afternoon making Stations of the Cross, and because the purple shrouds that covered all of the statuary had at last been taken up.
- a slice of raisin bread
- cinnamon raisin bread
- toasted raisin bread
Examples
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There is no better present on a winter morning than a pot of bubbling vegetable soup and warm raisin bread!" Mrs. Claus sighed, then smiled to herself.
Fiction book (1998) -
"I wanna take you to Chock Full o' Nuts "for a cream cheese sandwich on a raisin bread"?
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Oh gosh, it's Raisin bread and I can certainly smell.
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You ate all the raisin bread before I got any.
Fiction book (1996) -
And could we have two more baskets of raisin bread?
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And this raisin bread...
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Santa, you know, is very fond of bubbling vegetable soup and warm raisin bread.
Fiction book (1998) -
The female cashier acts like I'm not doing anything special buying this magazine, but I've camouflaged it with necessities: milk and raisin bread.
Fiction book (1997) -
She enjoyed her breakfast with a slice of raisin bread topped with butter.
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I like to make French toast using raisin bread for extra sweetness.
Synonyms
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A sweet loaf of bread made with cinnamon, often with raisins
A sweet bread often made with dried fruit and served with tea
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Morphology
The meaning 'bread made with raisins' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'raisin' (dried grape) with 'bread' (baked dough); the compound denotes bread that contains raisins. This noun-noun composition is a common, literal and cross-linguistic product-naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Raisin bread comes from a simple baking picture: bakers mix little dried grapes, called raisins, into the dough before they bake the bread, so each slice has sweet pockets. That's why today raisin bread means 'bread made with raisins', often eaten sliced or toasted.