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zwieback
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun zwieback has 1 sense
- zwieback(n = noun.food) brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread - slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp; Array is a kind of toast
CIDE DICTIONARY
zwieback, n. [G., fr. zwie- two, twice (see Twice) + backen to bake.].
A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
zwieback, n. a kind of biscuit rusk or sweet cake toasted in slices.
Etymology
G, = twice baked
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