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单词 breadstuff
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breadstuffn.

Brit. /ˈbrɛdstʌf/, U.S. /ˈbrɛdˌstəf/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bread n., stuff n.1
Etymology: < bread n. + stuff n.1 Compare later foodstuff n.
Usually in plural.
1. A type of grain (esp. wheat), or the flour made from this, used to make bread. Also as a mass noun. Now chiefly historical.
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1793 T. Jefferson Let. 13 Feb. in Writings (1853) III. 509 France receives favorably our bread stuff, rice, wood, [etc].
1847 Ld. G. Bentinck in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxv. 142 Loaded..from her keel to her gunwale, with 1800 tons of breadstuffs.
1922 Northwestern Miller 16 Aug. 722/4 Imports of flour, grain and other breadstuffs into the United States by fiscal years ended June 30.
1992 A. Martin Railroads Triumphant vii. 163 Rye constituted the chief breadstuff of simple folk in Central and Eastern Europe for centuries.
2. A type or variety of bread; any bread product or similar foodstuff.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun]
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1856 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 57 Masses of half baked dough in the shape of biscuits..with other lumpy breadstuffs, leaden and rancidly larded.
1918 Mod. Hospital Jan. 43 (advt.) There are many kinds of delicious breadstuffs—dainty muffins, hot gems, fluffy biscuits—craved by the convalescent in place of cold bread or toast.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 728 Yet another staple was a family of breadstuffs variously called ‘clapbread’, ‘haverbread’, ‘hearth bread’, ‘griddle cakes’, and ‘pancakes’.
2018 Guardian (Nexis) 28 July (Opinion section) The leaflet recommended that every home lay down a stock of non-perishables: specifically breadstuffs with a long shelf-life (the leaflet mentioned tortillas and crackers).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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