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Etymology
From Middle English wastel, from Old French wastel, gastel (> French gâteau), from Late Latin wastellum, from Frankish *wastil, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“sustenance, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to be”). Cognate with Middle High German wastel (“a kind of bread”). Compare Old High German wist (“food”) and Old English wist (“food”). Doublet of gateau.
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Noun
wastel (countable and uncountable, plural wastels)
- (now historical) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French wastel, gastel (> French gâteau), from Late Latin wastellum, from Frankish *wastil, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“sustenance, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell, stay”). Cognate with Middle High German wastel (“a kind of bread”). Compare Old High German wist (“food”) and Old English wist (“food”).
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Noun
wastel
- A kind of fine white bread or cake.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
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William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
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Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
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Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flesh, and milk, and wastel brede.- Some small dogs she had, which she fed / With roasted meat, and milk, and wastel bread.
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