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crispbread

noun

Etymology

From crisp + bread.

  1. derived from *bʰera-✻ — “to split, beat, hew, struggle”
  2. inherited from *braudaz✻
  3. derived from *bʰrewh₁-✻ — “to boil; to brew”
  4. inherited from *braudą✻ — “bread”
  5. inherited from *braud✻
  6. inherited from brēad — “fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”
  7. inherited from bred
  8. compounded as crispbread — “crisp + bread”

Definitions

  1. A type of flat, dry bread or cracker, usually baked of rye flour, popular in the Nordic…

    A type of flat, dry bread or cracker, usually baked of rye flour, popular in the Nordic countries.

    • She describes how Irina, left at home during one of Lawrence’s extended business trips, feels herself turning “into one of those dry Scandinavian crispbreads that never have enough salt.”

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