sourdough
(saʊəʳdoʊ )
Word forms: sourdoughs
1. variable noun
Sourdough or sourdough bread is bread made using fermenting dough, that has a slightly sour taste.
Mashed avocado is delicious on toasted sourdough.
...an artisan bakery selling ryes and sourdoughs, fruit and olive breads.
2. uncountable noun
Sourdough is fermenting dough used as an ingredient to make bread rise.
The bread was made with coarser flour and raised with sourdough.
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Collocations:
sourdough toast
This makes a light sauce normally used for pasta, but it is also good on fried fish or sourdough toast.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Slice the garlic and rub the sourdough toast with the cut side.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Good with sourdough toast spread thickly with black olive paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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