Meaning of manchet | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.

countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“You that can deal with Gudgins,^([sic]) and courſe floure, / 'Tis pitie you ſhould taſte what manchet means […]”

“And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.”

“As with modern breads, like the baguette, there is no one recipe for a manchet. Each of the few published English recipes from the 1500s and the 1600s is different, though each achieves a result that was accepted as a manchet […]”

CEFR level