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shew-bread
n. Twelve loaves of bread placed on the alter in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread.
Usage examples of "shew-bread".
We ate these berries, I am bound to say, with a sense of guilty enjoyment, as if they had been a sort of shew-bread of the wilderness, though I cannot answer for the chaplain, who is by virtue of his office a little nearer to these mysteries of nature than I.