Brown-bread


any bread made of flour darker in color than bolted wheat flour, especially graham or whole wheat bread.
Boston brown bread.
Historical Examples

Blue-grass and Broadway Maria Thompson Daviess
The Merryweathers Laura E. Richards
Caper-Sauce Fanny Fern
London Walter Besant
A Busy Year at the Old Squire’s Charles Asbury Stephens
Meadow Grass Alice Brown
Mrs. Wilson’s Cook Book Mary A. Wilson
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph C. Lincoln
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph C. Lincoln

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