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Definition of Bread line
1. Noun. A queue of people waiting for free food.
Definition of Bread line
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of breadline) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bread Line
Literary usage of Bread line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York of the Novelists by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1917)
"But the bread line has its individual novel some years before William Sidney
Porter found his way out of the south and west to the hospitable noises and ..."
2. The King, the Kaiser, and Irish Freedom by James K. McGuire (1915)
"CHAPTER III ENGLAND LENGTHENING THE AMERICAN bread line SYMPATHY for the Belgians
is general in America and ..."
3. School Civics: An Outline Study of the Origin and Development of Government by Frank David Boynton (1916)
"... bread line " AT MIDNIGHT RECEIVING CHARITY (above) AND A POLICEMAN MAKING THE
STREETS SAFE (below) Many of these men in the " bread line " are idle ..."
4. It Might Have Happened to You: A Contemporary Portrait of Central and by Coningsby Dawson (1921)
"... XIV AN IMPERIAL BREAD-LINE If you can imagine the House of Lords standing in
the bread-line, you will be able to picture the sight that I saw today. ..."
5. The Earth, Plants, and Man: Popular Pictures of Nature by Joakim Frederik Schouw, Franz von Kobell, Arthur Henfrey (1852)
"The Bread-line extends furthest north in Scandinavia, for in Finmark we meet,
only within the fiords, it is true, with barley and potatoes up to the 70° NL; ..."
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