rusk

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”)

I’ll make the rusks myself. — The Golden Road, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Rusk, Dean^{C} Secretary of State. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Rusk, Jeremiah (gov. of Wis.): 83. — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick

zwieback, Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread

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