Now dial. Bread made in the form of loaves; ordinary baker’s bread as distinguished from cakes or wafers.
1559. Fecknam, in Strype, Ann. Ref., I. App. ix. 25. The communyon riceyved … in lofe bread, without any reverence.
1563. Foxe, A. & M., 980/2. Then cake bread and loafe bread are all one with you.
1564. J. Rastell, Confut. Jewell’s Serm., 162 b. The Sacrament was ministred … some tyme in loeuebread, some tyme in wafers.
1832. W. Jameson, in Mem. & Lett. (1845), 93. Bakers don’t care for loaf-bread, nor ministers for Sermons.
1899. M. Russell, Irish Farmer’s Sunday Morning, in Idyls of Killowen, 3/4. Before the sire the loaf-bread, too, is laid. Note. As contra-distinguished from griddle-bread.
