manchet

plural manchets

1. countablehistoricalobsoleteuncountableA type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.

   And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 21

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   You that can deal with Gudgins,^([sic]) and courſe floure, / 'Tis pitie you ſhould taſte what manchet means […]

   1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 12, column 1

   As with modern breads, like the baguette, there is no one recipe for a manchet. Each of the few published English recipes from the 1500s and the 1600s is different, though each achieves a result that was accepted as a manchet […]

   2011 October 15, William Rubel, Bread: A Global History, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 199