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Webster 1913 Edition

Wastel

Was′tel

,
Noun.
[OF.
wastel
,
gastel
, F.
gâteau
, LL.
wastellus
, fr. MHG.
wastel
a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS.
wist
food.]
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; – called also
wastel bread
, and
wastel cake
.
[Obs.]
Roasted flesh or milk and
wasted
bread.
Chaucer.
The simnel bread and
wastel
cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wastel

WASTEL

,
Noun.
A particular sort of bread; fine bread or cake.

Definition 2025

wastel

wastel

English

Noun

wastel ‎(plural wastels)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
    Roasted flesh or milk and wastel bread. — Chaucer.
    The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. — Sir Walter Scott.

Etymology

Old French wastel, gastel, French gâteau, Latin wastellus, from Middle High German wastel a kind of bread; compare Old High German and Anglo-Saxon wist food.

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