pocket bread

pocket bread

n.

See pita¹.

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Noun

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pocket bread - usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling pita flatbread - any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough gyro - a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread Middle East, Mideast, Near East - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"