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Definition of Pocket bread
1. Noun. Usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling.
Generic synonyms: Flatbread
Group relationships: Gyro
Geographical relationships: Middle East, Mideast, Near East
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Bread
Literary usage of Pocket bread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Composition of Foods: Baked Products: Raw, Processed, Prepared (1994)
"Pita bread originated in the Middle East and is also known as arabic, Syrian,
and pocket bread. In the United States, a typical formula for this bread is ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"So they walked in and took a table in a remote corner, and then Thackeray, drawing
the fresh sheets of MS. from his breast pocket, Bread through that ..."
3. History of Alaska: 1730-1885 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos (1886)
"... broken in health and spirit, and without a rouble in his pocket. Bread-stuffs
could be brought from Boston at lower rates than from Okhotsk, ..."
4. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1883)
"... and it follows that its quantity, quality, and variety depend upon the pence
in his pocket. Bread and-cheese is the ordinary fare when the funds are low ..."
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