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cockle-bread
noun 2
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3ADJ.
boiled, homely
COCKLE-BREAD + NOUN
beech
PREP.
on, with
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noun
1
Bread made from wild grain.
When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.
2
A form of bread used as a love charm, variously described as being kneaded with the knees or buttocks, or simply shaped to look like buttocks.
Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.
The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.
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When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the fo
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Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.
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The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.
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