ˈcake-bread
[f. cake n. + bread.]
Bread made in flattened cakes; or of the finer and more dainty quality of cake.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 229 Þei eten Calues flesshe and cakebrede. 1479 Office Mayor Bristol in E.E. Gilds 418 To take cakebrede & wyne. 1544 in Latimer's Wks. (1844) II. 484 Then cake-bread and loaf-bread are all one with you. 1547 Boorde Brev. Health ccvii. I refuse Cake bread, Saffron bread..Cracknelles, Symnelles, and all maner of crustes. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 166 Beyng shod with cakebred that spurner marth all. a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 204 In friendly breaking Cake-bread with the Fish-wives at funerals. 1882 O'Donovan Merv. II. xlv. 262 Some brown cake-bread of the coarsest description had been broken. |
b. attrib. Like cake, brittle.
| 1579 J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf E vij, The Spanish genet wil soone champ thys cakebread snaffle a sunder. |