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sweet bread, n.2 Sc., Newfoundland, W. Indies, and dial.|ˈswiːtbrɛd, ˈswiːt ˈbrɛd|
Also sweet-bread, sweetbread.
[f. sweet a. + bread n.: cf. also sweet a. 3 c.]
Chiefly collect. sing. Any of various sweet-tasting baked foodstuffs, esp. (a) a fancy cake or pastry; sweetmeat (orig. Sc.); (b) bread containing molasses and raisins, prepared chiefly at Christmas (Newfoundland).
1777Caledonian Mercury 19 July 3/3 (Advt.), Mrs. Watson, at the back of the Grammar School, Dundee, begs leave to inform the Public, that she continues to make grave clothes and sweet breads, in room of Mrs. Key, deceased. 1867in Maritime Monthly (1873) I. 443 Oh, what a sad Christmas Eve and Christmas Day it is for me! I think I can see you making the sweet-bread and preparing everything comfortable for to-morrow. 1893Christmas Rev. (St. John's, Newfoundland) 5 Now the table is set with jugs, glasses, and decanters, and plates of ‘sweet bread', apples and oranges. 1931J. M. Byrnes Paths to Yesterday 104 Heaping plates of home made ‘sweet bread’ were passed around. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest ix. 112 They were sitting behind a sweet-bread tray in front of the village rumshop. 1973Sunday Express (Trinidad & Tobago) 8 Apr. 6/2 The Harvard Club is holding a super sale of homemade cakes, hot-cross buns, sweetbread and sweets to raise funds for its children's cricket coaching scheme. 1988L. Spalding Daughters of Captain Cook xvii. 154, I found the last remains of some Portuguese sweet bread. |