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bread basket

UK/ˈbɹɛdbɑːskɪt/US/ˈbɹɛdˌbæskɪt/
nounB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A bread basket is the small basket of rolls set out before the meal. Pass the bread basket, an empty bread basket, refill the bread basket.

Whether it is free says a great deal about the country you are eating in. As a figure of speech the bread basket of a region is the part that grows its grain.

Definitions of bread basket

  1. 1nounbread basketThe small basket of rolls set out before the meal.B1

    “The bread basket was gone before the menus arrived.”

bread basket is a basket.

Where it comes from

breadbasket comes from bread + basket.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Restaurant & Cafe

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