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toastmaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From toast + maker.

Meanings

1. A person or machine that makes toast (cooked bread).
   • The new Dormeyer Toastmaker is the modern way to make toast — with that good "old-fashioned" flavor. 1950 October 23, LIFE:
   • It was quite an office she had taken to herself, that of toastmaker to the family, and she made quite a serious business of it. First, there was to be mamma's toast, that was to be very thin and crisp... 1867, Archie's ambition:
2. A toastmaster, one who proposes toasts at a formal occasion.
   • As to the host — it is he who is toastmaker on such a gala occasion as I describe. 1896, The American magazine:

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