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wastels

wastels is the plural of wastel.

Meaning of wastel

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....

Questions about wastels

What is wastels the plural of?
Wastels is the plural of wastel.

Words near wastels in the dictionary

  1. wastelbread
  2. wasteless
  3. wastelessness
  4. wastelot
  5. wastelots
  6. wastels
  7. wasteman
  8. wastemans
  9. wastemen
  10. wasten
  11. wastened

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