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noun

Rusk n.

A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.

Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

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Etymology of 'Rusk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rusk" Quotes from Famous Books

... meagre breakfast of one egg and a dry rusk, Krayne endeavoured to evoke the features of the pretty creature who had so strongly attracted him. He saw a tangle of black hair, a glance that touched his heart with its pathos, a pair of soft, parted red lips, and dazzling teeth. It ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... cared to exchange his productions with a man who in return had to offer only his opinion of somebody else's! As this opinion was usually worthless even under the old regime, people soon began to turn up their noses at it, and nobody would give a rusk for the information that Turner was a better artist than Nature, or that hanging was too good for Whistler. Remarks about the Italian Renaissance were accounted paltry equivalents for green peas, invidious ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

Words linked to "Rusk" : twice-baked bread, Brussels biscuit, toast