Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cake.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing representing a round cake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also
wastel bread , andwastel cake .
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- noun obsolete A kind of fine white
bread orcake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The other word I was stumped by is wastel, which is a bread made of fine flour.
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The other word I was stumped by is wastel, which is a bread made of fine flour.
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Mysie made no answer, but began to knead dough for wastel-cake with all despatch, observing that Sir Piercie had partaken of that dainty, and commended it upon the preceding day.
The Monastery 2008
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“Swear by wine and wastel-bread, for these are the props of thy life, thou greedy Southron!” said Dame
The Monastery 2008
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Nor were the good folks of those days without their simnels, cracknels, and other sorts of cakes for the table, among which in the wastel we recognise the equivalent of the modern
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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Her sisters, who were now grand ladies with husbands and manors of their own, and her old father, and all the great people of the county came to congratulate her; and after that they used often to drop in for a dinner of chickens and wine and wastel bread if they passed the house on a journey, and sometimes they spent the night there.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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One archbishop had to forbid an abbess whom he visited to keep _monkeys and a number of dogs_ in her own chamber and charged her at the same time with stinting her nuns in food; one can guess what became of the roasted flesh or milk and wastel-breed!
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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On the corners of the table were trenchers of white bread -- wastel, cocket, manchet, of fine wheaten flour, -- and brown bread of barley, millet and rye.
Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910
qms commented on the word wastel
An old-fashioned cooking apostle,
She animates many a fossil.
She brews her own meads
And seasons with weeds
And bakes humble pie and fine wastel.
December 26, 2015