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Definition of Breadbaskets
1. breadbasket [n] - See also: breadbasket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breadbaskets
Literary usage of Breadbaskets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"In three or in two parallel columns, artillery between them, horse ahead, horse
arear; haggling along there; — making for their breadbaskets, thinks the ..."
2. Social New York Under the Georges, 1714-1776: Houses, Streets, and Country by Esther Singleton (1902)
"... 1752; breadbaskets, 1760 ; polished copper chafing-dishes, 1760 ; copper tin
kitchens with stands, 1763 ; baskets for plates and baskets for knives, ..."
3. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"The butchers were all making music wilh their marrow-bones and cleavers ; the
baker boys had converted their breadbaskets into banjoes, by pulling strings ..."
4. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"chants had ample amounts. It was deemed a good and safe investment for spare money.
breadbaskets, salvers ..."
5. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Embossed silver ware : cups, goblet 8, salt-cellars, breadbaskets, oil and vinegar
cruets, sets of knives, forks, and spoons ; inkstands, 4c. ..."
6. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1885)
"In three or in two parallel columns, artillery between them, horse ahead, horse
arear ; haggling along there : •—making for their breadbaskets, thinks the ..."
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