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staff of life

n. pl. staves of life or staffs of life

A staple or necessary food, especially bread.

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staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked bread, breadstuff starches - foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven anadama bread - a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses bap - a small loaf or roll of soft bread barmbrack - a rich currant cake or bun bread-stick, breadstick - a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup Boston brown bread, brown bread - dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water bun, roll - small rounded bread either plain or sweet caraway seed bread - bread containing caraway seeds challah, hallah - (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking cinnamon bread - bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins cracked-wheat bread - bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine cracker - a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet crouton - a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads brown bread, dark bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread - bread made with whole wheat flour English muffin - round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten flatbread - any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough garlic bread - French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven gluten bread - bread made with gluten flour Host - a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion loaf, loaf of bread - a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating matzah, matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread - brittle flat bread eaten at Passover naan, nan - leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop onion bread - bread containing finely minced onions raisin bread - bread containing raisins quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking rye bread - any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour salt-rising bread - white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp simnel - a crisp bread of fine white flour sour bread, sourdough bread - made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active toast - slices of bread that have been toasted wafer - thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist) light bread, white bread - bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them