manchet
See also: manchèt
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English manchet, of unknown origin; compare cheat (“low-quality bread”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmanchet (countable and uncountable, plural manchets)
- (obsolete or historical) A type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.
- 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 12, column 1:
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 21:
- And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.
- 2011 October 15, William Rubel, Bread: A Global History, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 199:
- As with modern breads, like the baguette, there is no one recipe for a manchet. Each of the few published English recipes from the 1500s and the 1600s is different, though each achieves a result that was accepted as a manchet […]
See also
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French manchette.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmanchet f (plural manchetten, diminutive manchetje n)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editAnagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown; the second element may be chet.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmanchet (uncountable)
Descendants
edit- English: manchet
References
edit- “main-chẹ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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