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breadstuff

American  
[bred-stuhf] / ˈbrɛdˌstʌf /

noun

  1. grain, flour, or meal for making bread.

  2. any kind of bread.


Etymology

Origin of breadstuff

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; bread + stuff

Example Sentences

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I breathed the flour and drank the flour, and felt myself to be enveloped in a world of breadstuff.

From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony

And some baked breadstuff dainties on a platter.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various

Of our commercial objects, Spain receives favorably our breadstuff, salted fish, wood, ships, tar, pitch, and turpentine.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

No chemist, with all his appliances, can turn breadstuff into brainstuff or hay into milk.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles

This was the first place since we left Los Angeles where we could buy any kind of breadstuff, and we were here enabled to get a change of diet, including greens.

From Death Valley in '49 by Manly, William Lewis