manchet

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈmænt͡ʃɪt/
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/ˈmænt͡ʃɪt/ · /-ət/

Definition of manchet

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable)A type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.
    “You that can deal with Gudgins,^([sic]) and courſe floure, / 'Tis pitie you ſhould taſte what manchet means […]”
    “And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.”
    “As with modern breads, like the baguette, there is no one recipe for a manchet. Each of the few published English recipes from the 1500s and the 1600s is different, though each achieves a result that was accepted as a manchet […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English manchet, of unknown origin; compare cheat (“low-quality bread”).

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6-letter words

2 words

5-letter words

16 words

4-letter words

50 words

3-letter words

36 words

2-letter words

18 words

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