Definition of Brown bread

1. Noun. Bread made with whole wheat flour.

Exact synonyms: Dark Bread, Whole Meal Bread, Whole Wheat Bread
Generic synonyms: Bread, Breadstuff, Staff Of Life
Specialized synonyms: Graham Bread

2. Noun. Dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water.
Exact synonyms: Boston Brown Bread
Generic synonyms: Bread, Breadstuff, Staff Of Life

Definition of Brown bread

1. Noun. Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread. ¹

2. Adjective. (idiomatic Cockney rhyming slang) dead ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Bread

brown bag
brown bagged
brown bagging
brown bags
brown bastard
brown bastards
brown bat
brown bear
brown bears
brown bells
brown bent
brown bill
brown bits
brown bomber
brown bombers
brown bread (current term)
brown bullhead
brown cheese
brown cheeses
brown cloud
brown coal
brown creeper
brown cup
brown dwarf
brown dwarfs
brown dwarves
brown eye
brown eyes
brown fat

Literary usage of Brown bread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1865)
"Breakfast—Meat hash, brown bread and coffee. Dinner—Baked beans and pork, ... Dinner—Stewed peas and pork, and brown bread, Supper—White bread and ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"Corned beef, warm brown bread, flour, bread and coffee. Dinner. ... Flour bread, warm brown bread, molasses and coffee. Dinner.—Corned beef, vegetables aud ..."

3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"brown bread Pudding. Half a pound of stale brown bread grated, ditto of currants, ditto of shred suet, sugar and nutmeg; mix with four eggs, a spoonful of ..."

4. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... with Potatoes—brown bread—Boston brown bread—Buttermilk Bread—Graham Bread— Rye Bread—Rye and Indian Bread—Salt-Rising Bread—Whole Wheat Bread— Bread ..."

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