bread-lepe

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

bread-lepe (plural bread-lepes)

  1. A breadbasket.
    • 1250, Genesis and Exodus:
      Quað ðis bred-wrigte, 'liðeð nu me, me drempte ic bar bread-lepes ðre, and ðor-in bread and oðer meten, Quilke ben wune ðe kinges to eten;
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