brown bread

noun

-ˌbred

: bread made of whole wheat flour

: a dark brown steamed bread made usually of cornmeal, white or whole wheat flours, molasses, soda, and milk or water

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Select: Online Shopping, Simplified These days, a toaster oven can do more than just brown bread. —

Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024 The menu includes Irish favorites, from fish and chips and lamb shoulder braised in Irish stout to treacle brown bread. —

Wendy O’Dea, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023 The food in Bill’s backpack consisted of the same lunch that my group had: a two-pound box of cheese, two one-pound cans of B. & M. brown bread, eight oranges, and twenty chocolate bars. —

David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023 Eventually de Mayerne found that stale brown bread could clean them—a technique still used by restorers. —

Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for brown bread