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bread-kind|ˈbrɛdkaɪnd|
[f. bread n. + kind n.]
Food like bread; esp. a West Indian name for yams, sweet potatoes, and similar food-stuffs.
1697W. Dampier Voy. 311 The Mindanao People live 3 or 4 months of the year on this food for their Bread kind. 1712W. Rogers Voy. round World 376 At which Allowance we have not above 12 Days at most, being all the Bread Kind we have in the Ship. 1891Wesleyan Meth. Mag. May 362 A brown woman..with a load of ‘bread-kind’ on her head. 1899W. P. Livingstone Black Jamaica v, The principal food consisted of what is locally called ‘bread-kind’; yams, sweet potatoes, cocos, plantains. |