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cottage loaf en · NOUN
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A traditional English loaf of bread shaped like two round loaves, one on top of the other.
“This piece of toast. You remark him not?” He whipped the offender out of the rack, and held it up for me to examine. “Is it square? No. Is it a triangle? Again no. Is it even round? No. Is it of any shape remotely pleasing to the eye? What symmetry have we here? None.” “It’s cut from a cottage loaf,” I explained soothingly.
1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:
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