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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Origin and Etymology of 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