unleavened bread
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- noun
- /ʌnˈlɛvənd brɛd/
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- During Passover, Jewish families traditionally eat unleavened bread to commemorate their ancestors' hasty escape from Egypt.
- use of unleavened bread
Examples
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The unleavened bread symbolizes their sacrifices.
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This year, Shimeon Bar-Adonijah had presented the elements of the Passover meal: "The lamb, the unleavened bread, and the bitter herbs of the Passover have as much meaning for us as for our Jewish brothers and sisters."
Fiction book (1998) -
But I have yet to master the making of unleavened bread like you have.
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"Why on this night only unleavened bread?
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Now came the days of unleavened bread.
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Why do we eat matzah, the unleavened bread?
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A trencher was a dinner plate made of flat, unleavened bread.
Blog text (24) -
The family ate almost nothing but unleavened bread made with a mixed-grain flour containing corn.
Academic text (1992) -
Of course, it could be said that if Jesus celebrated the Paschal Seder according to Jewish custom, he used unleavened bread.
Academic text (2006) -
The bitter herbs, the unleavened bread, and the salt water are laden with symbolism, and the service is exactly the same as it has been for centuries.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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A thin, flat, crispy bread eaten by Jewish people during Passover
Antonyms
How Leavened
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'bread made without leavening agents' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'unleavened' (not leavened) + 'bread'. The negative prefix un- plus the participial base makes the absence-of-leaven sense transparent, and equivalent constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Unleavened bread comes from an old story about people leaving Egypt 'in a hurry'; without yeast the dough did not rise, so they baked thin, flat loaves. That's why unleavened bread means bread made with 'no yeast' and is still eaten at Passover.