fresh bread
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- noun
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pan fresco
- The table was strewn enticingly with fresh bread, succulent tomatoes, pâté, peaches, and figs.
- a loaf of fresh bread
- fresh bread from a bakery
- the scent of fresh bread
Examples
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Nothing better than the smell of fresh bread.
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The boy brought them canned sardines, fresh bread, and warm Coke.
Fiction book (1994) -
Come and get your fresh bread.
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We got fresh bread here.
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You smell the scent of fresh bread as you walk through.
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Tell the cafeteria lady that her delicious, fresh bread just made your day.
Academic text (1993) -
I catch a whiff of fresh bread from a bakery starting production miles away.
Fiction book (2001) -
Garth rose at noon and ate the vegetable stew and fresh bread she had prepared.
Fiction book (1992) -
The old man sighed deeply, and the breeze carried a faint yeasty scent of fresh bread.
Fiction book (2000) -
The bakery offered warm, fresh bread straight from the oven every morning.
Antonyms
How Fresh
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'bread that has been recently baked' is transparently derived from combining 'fresh' (recently produced/unspoiled) with 'bread' (baked food), so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it. It follows a basic adjective + noun compositional pattern common across languages and has no idiomatic or metaphorical shift.
Etymology
The phrase fresh bread comes from the clear image of bread just out of the oven, still warm and soft with a nice smell. So fresh bread means bread that was 'recently baked' and is not stale.