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zwieback
zwee-BAK
noun
a German sweet bread which is baked twice
1915Booth Tarkington The Turmoil Beginning at the beginning and learning from the ground up was a long course for Bibbs at the sanitarium, with milk and 'zwieback' as the basis of instruction; and the months were many and tiresome before he was considered near enough graduation to go for a walk leaning on a nurse and a cane. 1917Mary Roberts Rinehart Long Live the King Ferdinand William Otto was hungry. He ate eagerly - chicken, fruit compote, potato salad—again shades of the Court physicians, who fed him at night a balanced ration of milk, egg, and zwieback! 2001Dean Koontz One Door Away from Heaven...Bobby said, 'The congressman is zwieback.' | He's what?' | 'Toast done twice.'

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