brown bread

noun

-ˌbred 

1

: bread made of whole wheat flour

2

: a dark brown steamed bread made usually of cornmeal, white or whole wheat flours, molasses, soda, and milk or water

Examples of brown bread in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Select: Online Shopping, Simplified These days, a toaster oven can do more than just brown bread. —Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2024

The menu includes Irish favorites, from fish and chips and lamb shoulder braised in Irish stout to treacle brown bread. —Wendy O’Dea, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023

The food in Bill’s backpack consisted of the same lunch that my group had: a two-pound box of cheese, two one-pound cans of B. & M. brown bread, eight oranges, and twenty chocolate bars. —David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023

Eventually de Mayerne found that stale brown bread could clean them—a technique still used by restorers. —Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1