Crossword clues for breadbox
breadbox
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
breadbox \bread"box`\ n. a container used to store breads or cake, to keep them fresh.
Syn: bread-bin.
Wiktionary
alt. A container for storing bread or other baked goods to keep them fresh. n. A container for storing bread or other baked goods to keep them fresh.
WordNet
n. a container used to keep bread or cake in [syn: bread-bin]
Wikipedia
A breadbox (chiefly American) or a bread bin (chiefly British) is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh. They were a more common household kitchen item until bread started being made commercially with food preservatives and wrapped in plastic. Breadboxes are still used by many people to store commercially purchased bread, but are used more especially by people who bake bread at home. Newer ones are usually made of metal. In the past they were often made of wood or sometimes pottery (pottery breadboxes are also called bread crocks). Old breadboxes can be collectible antiques.
Breadboxes are most commonly big enough to fit one or two average size loaves of bread—about 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep (30 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm).
Usage examples of "breadbox".
From the library he made his way, over plank bridgelets and fern-choked gullies and down long flights of decaying wooden steps, to the plain little house called the Breadbox, where Q'iin the Herbmistress was candying lemon peel in the glass porch overlooking the sun-salted slope of the herb garden.
So he turned his steps downward, edging back through the cellars of the Breadbox and the Assembly Hall, through the hypocaust, and so to a downshaft from the cellar of the Island of Butterflies that had escaped Bentick's notice.
Tom dished up leftover lamb stew that, for once, Antryg was almost too exhausted to eat while Pothatch slipped out to puff his way up the hill to the Breadbox to beg more dream herbs from Q'iin.
He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.
His fingers caressed the smooth leather of the binding as he took it back and slipped it under the breadbox.
Also, she said, there was a coffee cake in the breadbox if he fancied something sweet.
There was a warming cabinet in Nate's apartment that looked like a breadbox made out of a giant armadillo shell.
We arrive at the Hurley homestead, a huge breadbox with a white picket fence, a kidney in the back yard for swimming, and a two-car garage.