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bread and water
(a) bread and water: as the type of an extremely plain or frugal diet, as of a prisoner, penitent, or ascetic. Similarly (in early use) †loaf and water, also †bran and water. [Compare classical Latin pānis et aqua; later also Anglo-Norman pain e ewe (1376 or earlier; compare Middle French, French au pain et à l'eau), and Middle Dutch water ende broot (Dutch water en brood), Middle High German wazzer und brōt (German Wasser und Brot).]
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OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) l. 273 Gif he þonne gyt wiðligð þissum forbeode ma him ælce bilyfne butan hlafe and wætere, oð he hit fullice gebete.
lOE St. Margaret (Corpus Cambr.) (1994) 160 Þa com hire fosterfæder gan to hire and þurh an eahþyrl he hire to spræc and he hire brohte bread and wæter [OE Tiber. hi wæs fædende mid hlafe and mid wætre].
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 37 (MED) Summe þat myghte haue had alle maner deyntees hadde delit to be fed a mong with bred & water.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 12 [She] fasted iij tymes a woke, two tymes in brede and water.
1474 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) *32 If any man come to late to mattyns..he shall sytt at the water boarde, and have nothinge unto his dynner but breade and water.
1537 tr. Original & Sprynge all Sectes f. 5 His meate was bread and water, his clothynge was a cote of males vpon his bare body.
1569 T. Knell Epit. Boner sig. B.j His soule was wearie here, in the life that he had, His foode was breade and water, his lodgying was to badde.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 289 You shall fast a weeke with Branne and Water. View more context for this quotation
1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. E3 Thou withholdest both the mault and flowre, And giu'st vs branne, and water, (fit for dogs.)
1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles ii. ii. 15 I had as live be in the Bastile, and order'd to feed upon Bread and Water, as be Confin'd to the sneaking allowance that a Parsimonious Husband shall bestow on me.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. xii. 61 To regale myself still with my bread and water, and a sight of the silent turnkey.
1781 Lett. Ital. Nun & Eng. Gentleman 44 The most inexorable Tyrant does not refuse bread and water to the Criminal whom he has consigned to the Dungeon!
1822 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. Feb. 364 Are visiting Justices to doom such a prisoner to bread and water?
1888 Times 21 June 10/3 He was put upon bread and water.
1921 E. L. Masters Mitch Miller xiv. 113 After that they..put him in a dark room and kept him on bread and water for a day.
1964 D. Wheatley They used Dark Forces vii. 98 To bitch Hitler's last chance of winning the war I'd willingly spend a year down a coal mine on bread and water.
2003 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 14 Dec. We will all be reduced to bread and water to pay for our Yuletide largesse.
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