Italian bread

Italian bread

English

Noun

Italian bread (countable and uncountable, plural Italian breads)

  1. (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
  2. 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.