wastel bread

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wastel bread - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wastel \Was"tel\, n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. g[^a]teau, LL.
     wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS.
     wist food.]
     A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also
     wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.]
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           Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.  --Chaucer.
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           The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used
           at the tables of the highest nobility.   --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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