Italian bread
English
Noun
Italian bread (countable and uncountable, plural Italian breads)
- (cooking) A type a crusty, yeasted bread prepared without shortening and unsweetened, baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
- Alternative form: Italian (elliptically synonymous)
- Hypernyms: bread < foodstuff, food < stuff
- Coordinate terms: French bread, Cuban bread
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Italian, bread: any of many types of bread made in Italy or said to be made faithfully in the style thereof.