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单词 manchet
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Definition of manchet in English:

manchet

noun ˈmantʃɪtˈman(t)SHət
historical
  • A loaf of the finest kind of wheaten bread.

    as modifier a small manchet loaf
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bake these delicious manchet loaves using ale yeast from the brewhouse and stoneground English flour.
    • Dot and I took some manchets about the manor to sell for charity, although she did all the talking.
    • One will not learn anything about Twelfth Night by eating a manchet or stroking a velvet doublet, but introducing the play with an ‘Elizabethan experience’ need not always be valueless.
    • If you were a member of the nobility, finely sieved wheat would be used in making white manchet loaves.
    • Mama had Missy make her famous corn chowder, ginger beef, carrot pudding, fresh manchet bread, and sherry and vanilla cream custards.

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps from obsolete maine 'flour of the finest quality' + obsolete cheat, denoting a kind of wheaten bread.

 
 

Definition of manchet in US English:

manchet

nounˈman(t)SHət
historical
  • A loaf of the finest kind of wheat bread.

    as modifier a small manchet loaf
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One will not learn anything about Twelfth Night by eating a manchet or stroking a velvet doublet, but introducing the play with an ‘Elizabethan experience’ need not always be valueless.
    • Dot and I took some manchets about the manor to sell for charity, although she did all the talking.
    • If you were a member of the nobility, finely sieved wheat would be used in making white manchet loaves.
    • Bake these delicious manchet loaves using ale yeast from the brewhouse and stoneground English flour.
    • Mama had Missy make her famous corn chowder, ginger beef, carrot pudding, fresh manchet bread, and sherry and vanilla cream custards.

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps from obsolete maine ‘flour of the finest quality’ + obsolete cheat, denoting a kind of wheaten bread.

 
 
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