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bread
adjectives
fresh
• Eat the bread while it’s nice and fresh.
stale
(= hard and no longer fresh )
• This bread’s stale – shall I throw it away?
crusty
(= having a hard crust that is nice to eat )
• Serve the soup with crusty bread.
mouldy
British English , moldy American English (= covered with a green substance that grows on old food )
• All there was in the house was a loaf of mouldy old bread.
white/brown bread
• Would you like white bread or brown bread?
wholewheat bread
( also wholemeal bread British English ) (= bread made with flour that contains all of the grain )
• Wholemeal bread is good for you.
home-made/home-baked bread
• I love home-made bread.
phrases
a slice/piece of bread
• Can I have another slice of bread?
a loaf of bread
• He’s gone to buy a loaf of bread.
a chunk of bread
(= a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it )
• He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.
verbs
make/bake bread
• We usually make our own bread.
cut/slice bread
• Could you cut some bread?
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noun ADJ. fresh | hard, mouldy, soggy, stale This bread is going stale. | crusty some nice crusty white bread | sliced | unleavened | home-baked, home-made | fried | garlic | black, brown, granary, naan, pitta, rye, soda, white, wholemeal | French, Italian, etc. QUANT. loaf | chunk, crumb, crust, hunk, morsel, piece, slice She tore off a large hunk of bread. VERB + BREAD bake, make the smell of freshly-baked bread | cut, slice | butter, put sth on, spread bread thickly spread with plum jam | toast BREAD + NOUN dough | pudding, roll, sauce | bin, knife PREP. on the ~ What would you like on your bread? PHRASES bread and butter/margarine a plate of bread and butter | bread and cheese/jam, bread and water He had to live on bread and water for two weeks. | bread and wine (= the food given to Christians during the Communion service) People started going up to receive the bread and wine.FOOD
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