cockle-bread

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bread made from wild grain. obsolete,uncountable
    — 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. uncountable
    — Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.

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