date-nut bread
- noun
:
pan de dátiles y nueces
- I always enjoy a slice of date-nut bread with my coffee in the afternoon.
- Whole date-nut bread
- wheat date-nut bread
Examples
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Homemade date-nut bread is a delightful treat for breakfast or a snack.
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Ever taste his cream cheese and pimento on date nut bread?
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For dessert, she served a warm piece of date-nut bread, drizzled with honey.
Synonyms
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1.3
A baked loaf with raisins mixed into the dough, often eaten sliced and toasted
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1.8
A bread made with chopped nuts mixed into the dough
A sweet bread with pieces of chopped dates
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
date-nut + bread
The meaning is a straightforward compositional food compound: it describes a loaf (bread) made with dates and nuts, so a learner who knows 'date', 'nut' and 'bread' can infer it. Food-naming patterns like [ingredient] + bread are cross-linguistically common, so despite the hyphenated form 'date-nut' the phrase is transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Date-nut bread comes from a simple kitchen idea: cooks mixed chopped dates and nuts into a sweet loaf, so the name shows the main ingredients. That's why it means 'a sweet bread made from dates and nuts'.