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wastel

UK/ˈwɒstəl/US/ˈwɑstəl/

wastel noun: a kind of fine white bread or cake.

Noun

wastel (countable and uncountable, plural wastels)

  1. (historical) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
    • the simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Synonyms of wastel

Forms of wastel

pluralwastels

Origin of wastel

From Middle English wastel, from Old French wastel, gastel (> French gâteau), from Late Latin wastellum, from Frankish *wastil, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“sustenance, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to be”). Cognate with Middle High German wastel (“a kind of bread”). Compare Old High German wist (“food”) and Old English wist (“food”). Doublet of gateau.

Phrases with wastel

Questions about wastel

What does wastel mean?
Wastel means a kind of fine white bread or cake.
What part of speech is wastel?
Wastel is a noun.
How do you pronounce wastel?
Wastel is pronounced /ˈwɒstəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of wastel?
The plural of wastel is wastels.

Words near wastel in the dictionary

  1. wastegoods
  2. wasteground
  3. wastegrounds
  4. wasteheap
  5. wasteheaps
  6. wastel
  7. wastel bread
  8. wastel breads
  9. wastel cake
  10. wastel cakes
  11. wasteland

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