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hot bread shop en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand) A small bakery, typically a local family-run establishment.
    • The two of them walk side by side down the street until they come to the hot bread shop. At the hot bread shop the fat guy goes in while Snatch waits outside and when he comes out he's carrying a paper bag. 2018, Albert Trajtsman, Faraway Places, Australia:
    • This type of modest-sized operation has reappeared in recent decades in the form of the franchised 'hot-bread shop,' often located in shopping centers. In this type of bakery, all goods are baked within the bread shop […] 2015, Colin W Wrigley, Harold Corke, Koushik Seetharaman, Encyclopedia of Food Grains, page 340:
    • 'I have a job in hot bread shop. In a hot bread shop. I think I have enough English for the hot bread shop. You think?' 1994, Amy Witting, A Change in the Lighting, Sydney, page 157:

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