toast

Definition

Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).

Etymology

From Middle English tost, from the verb tosten (see below).

Example Sentences

• "I ate a piece of toast for breakfast."
• "This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly."
• "Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen."

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