fancy bread

noun

: bread in other form than the conventional yeast-raised loaf

especially : any of various raised breads enriched (as with eggs, sweetenings, or nuts and fruit) and often baked in some other shape than an elongated loaf (as a braid or twist or an individual portion)

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