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wastel |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wastel \Was"tel\, n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. g[^a]teau, LL wastellus fr MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf OHG. & AS wist food.] A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also {wastel bread}, and {wastel cake}. [Obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. --Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. --Sir W. Scott.
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