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barracouta loaf en · NOUN

Etymology

After the regional name for a thin, metre-long fish, from the shape of the loaf and its rough crust, thought to resemble the back of the fish.

Meanings

1. (New-Zealand) A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.
   • As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family. 2000, anonymous author, “Home Town”, in Gordon McLauchlan, editor, Morrieson’s Motel, Auckland: Tandem Press, page 199:
   • Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth. 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, published 1920, page 53:

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