black bread

English

Etymology

Because the bread's dark brown color is notionally black.

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Noun

black bread (plural black breads)

  2. (cooking) A type of coarse-grained, dark-colored rye bread.
    Alternative form: blackbread
    Hypernyms: rye bread, rye < bread < food
    Hyponyms: Borodinsky bread, Borodino bread
    Coordinate terms: brown bread; corn rye bread, Jewish rye bread, marble rye bread, Swedish rye bread, sweet rye bread, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel; white bread, white, wheat bread, wheat, whole-wheat bread

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