[f. CAKE sb. + BREAD.] Bread made in flattened cakes; or of the finer and more dainty quality of cake.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVI. 229. Þei eten Calues flesshe and cakebrede.
1479. Office Mayor Bristol, in E. E. Gilds, 418. To take cakebrede & wyne.
1544. in Latimer’s Wks. (1844), II. 484. Then cake-bread and loaf-bread are all one with you.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccvii. I refuse Cake bread, Saffron bread … Cracknelles, Symnelles, and all maner of crustes.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 166. Beyng shod with cakebred, that spurner marth all.
a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife (1638), 204. In friendly breaking Cake-bread with the Fish-wives at funerals.
1882. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, II. xlv. 262. Some brown cake-bread of the coarsest description had been broken up in wooden dishes.
b. attrib. Like cake, brittle.
c. 1579. J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, E vij. The Spanish genet wil soone champ thys cakebread snaffle a sunder.
