blackbread

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English

Noun

blackbread (countable and uncountable, plural blackbreads)

  1. Alternative form of black bread
    • 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five  (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 61:
      To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators. It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too. In went water and loaves of blackbread and sausage and cheese, and out came shit and piss and language.
    • 1981, Maisie Mosco, From the Bitter Land, Toronto, O.N., New York, N.Y., London: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 17:
      "I'm relieved the storekeepers're Jewish," Sarah said. / "If they weren't you'd go without all the things you're used to. In England, the goyim don't know from blackbread and salt herring. Now quick! Show me the addresses, I've just given myself an appetite. First we'll take our young couple with the baby, it should be in bed already and its little mother also."