SOUR BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sour bread mean? 

• SOUR BREAD (noun)
  The noun SOUR BREAD has 1 sense:

1. made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active

  Familiarity information: SOUR BREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUR BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sour bread; sourdough bread

Hypernyms ("sour bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

 Context examples 

Sallie began to laugh, but Meg nodded and lifted her eyebrows as high as they would go, which caused the apparition to vanish and put the sour bread into the oven without further delay.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)