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Manchet

[MAN-chət]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Late Middle English, 16th century

1.

(Historical) A loaf of the finest kind of wheaten bread.

Examples of Manchet in a sentence

"Marianne used a recipe from an old English cookbook to make the manchet loaf."

"This bakery is the only one in town that specializes in manchet."

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