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cottage loaf en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. 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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