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wastel bread

noun
was·tel bread | \ˈwästᵊl-\
variants: or wastel cake

Definition of wastel bread 

: bread formerly made of very fine flour also : a cake or loaf of such bread

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History and Etymology for wastel bread

Middle English wastel breed, from wastel wastel bread (from Old North French, from the Germanic source of Old French gastel cake) + breed bread

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