Cockle-bread
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cockle-bread is a noun meaning A form of bread used as a love charm, variously described as being kneaded with the knees or buttocks, or simply shaped to look like buttocks.
Meaning
A form of bread used as a love charm, variously described as being kneaded with the knees or buttocks, or simply shaped to look like buttocks.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Bread made from wild grain.
Example Sentences
Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.
They recall the much later English 'cockle bread', one of many methods used by girls to divine the names of their future husbands.
The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.
When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crug, cockle, bread-fleigh, loblolly, bread, cheat.
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