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Definition:Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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refrain from all such meats, as shall provoke thine appetite to lust, and all such means as may allure thy mind to folly. Take clear water for strong wine, brown bread for fine manchet, beef and brewis, for quails and partridge
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, (1578)
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Hyacinth: You're all invited this evening to my sister Violet's (she's the one with the Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony). Now I want you all there at 6:00 this evening for a bon vivant buffet and alfresco manchets - weather permitting of course - we don't want soggy vol-au-vent, do we?BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: A Barbecue at Violets (1995)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.475, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/475/mode/1up
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