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Boston brown bread in American English US a dark, sweetened, steamed bread made of cornmeal, rye or wheat flour, etc., and molasses Boston brown bread in American Englishnouna dark-brown steamed bread made of cornmeal and rye meal or graham or wheat flour sweetened with molasses Word origin [1855–60, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boilerplate, kickoff, pipeline, specialist, superheat |