wastel bread

noun

was·​tel bread

ˈwästᵊl-

variants or wastel cake

: bread formerly made of very fine flour

also : a cake or loaf of such bread

Word History

Etymology

Middle English wastel breed, from wastel wastel bread (from Old North French, from the Germanic source of Old French gastel cake) + breed bread

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