shortbread

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From short (“brittle, of pastry”) + bread.

My mouth has been watering for some more of your grandma’s delicious shortbread ever since I had tea here before.” Paul looked very sober. — Anne of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Mrs. Blythe was making shortbread for Jem, and Rilla was compounding candy for Ken and Walter--it had once been "Walter and Ken" in her thoughts but somehow, quite unconsciously, this had changed until Ken's name came naturally first. — Rilla of Ingleside, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
One day when he had been called to the castle the butler had shown him the marks of the soldiers’ slugs in the wood of the door and had given him a piece of shortbread that the community ate. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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