black bread
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2.9
- noun
- /blæk brɛd/
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pan negro
- Before her in a white paper bag was a small round loaf of black bread.
- a loaf of black bread
- a slice of black bread
- black bread for breakfast
Examples
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She had made bean soup, black bread, and apple cobbler.
Fiction book (1998) -
We scooped up the reddish-amber caviar with our spoons, ate fragrant black bread, and drank cool spring water, sitting on the ground that beautiful clear afternoon.
Fiction book (2001) -
We'll have the sausage, the cabbage -and the black bread please.
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It's all sausage, cabbage and black bread.
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Black bread with sour cream and golden caviar.
Fiction book (1990) -
A healthy cabbage soup with potatoes and thick black bread.
Fiction book (1992) -
D'Cey spread sturgeon roe on black bread with his thumb.
Fiction book (2000) -
For breakfast, they gave Kotya tea and his beloved heel of black bread with grated garlic on its crust.
Fiction book (2001) -
I sprinkled on some wild mushroom powder, poured in some chicken stock, sliced some black bread, and sat back thinking I was probably the first person in years to add a new dish to the cuisine of Lithuania.
Academic text (1992) -
He enjoyed a slice of black bread topped with butter and pickles.
Synonyms
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7.4
A dark, dense bread made from coarse rye
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2.2
Bread made with rye flour that is darker and denser than wheat bread
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1.0
A type of bread made from whole wheat flour that is darker and denser than white bread
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2.7
A loaf made from whole wheat or other dark flours
A moist rye bread flavored with orange peel and molasses
A moist rye bread that has molasses, spices, and orange flavour from Sweden
A dark steamed bread made from cornmeal and molasses, often served warm
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly inferable from combining 'black' (dark in color) with 'bread' ( baked dough): a dark-coloured bread is exactly what a learner would expect. Although it often refers to rye or coarse dark loaves in many cultures, the basic compositional meaning is transparent and cross-linguistically recognizable.
Etymology
The noun black bread comes from the dark look of the loaf. It was made from rye or whole grains that give a dark color and a heavy texture, so people called it black bread, meaning 'dark, dense bread'.