WASTEL

Etymology

Noun

wastel (countable and uncountable, plural wastels)

(obsolete) A kind of fine white bread or cake.

Anagrams

• Ewalts, awlets

Source: Wiktionary


Was"tel, n. Etym: [OF. wastel, gastel, F. gâteau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.]

Definition: A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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