The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manchet \Man"chet\, n.
Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic]
--Bacon.
Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland obsolete English) A type of high-quality bread made from flour.
Wikipedia
Manchet, manchette or michette (French), is a wheaten yeast bread of very good quality, or a small flat circular loaf of same. It was a bread that was small enough to be held in the hand or glove (see also manchette).
Usage examples of "manchet".
Ingrith was leaning over the shoulder of the heavyset cook, Signe, who was kneading the flat, unleavened manchet bread dough for baking.
Alrek was next to the bed, the king threw the linens back, exposing a trencher made of manchet bread.
Ingrith had just come up and was holding out a small tray toward him, which held a hollow manchet loaf containing the concoction.
And she ate three thick slices of warm manchet bread, their centers hollowed out halfway and swimming with chunks of rabbit and leeks in a thick broth.
Girta commented with her usual garrulousness as she placed a trencher of cold pork sausage, elk pie and manchet bread before him on the table, along with a large cup of mead.
Adam continued to blather while he tied robe around the waist of his flowing robe and grabbed I hunk of manchet bread topped with a slice of cold sausage to break his fast.
She cast him a sideways glance while she idly picked apart a piece of manchet bread.
Melyssan said, staring unhappily down at her manchet, grown soggy with her uneaten dinner.
He was eating eggs and white manchet, just as he had through the months before we left for the Common, spooning the yolk onto his bread and pressing salt into the yolk in precisely the same way.
Delighted to see that his appetite was back, I followed him down to the kitchen, where we feasted on leftover meat pie, reheated green beans, manchet bread, and labyrinth cake.
Dougless began to understand why pure white bread, called manchet, was so prized.
Delft, where he had left his valise, Ned partook of a good meal, for he had taken nothing but a manchet of bread and a cup of wine since the previous night.
He poured ale for her and she began to toy with a piece of fine white manchet bread as Aldith pushed the honey pot to her.
There was fine white manchet bread, cold meats and cheese, buttermilk and ale, even some of the last of the autumn apples.
When Alrek was next to the bed, the king threw the linens back, exposing a trencher made of manchet bread.