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| B and B |
abbreviation of "Bed-and-Breakfast," an establishment offering lodging and breakfast. [1/2 definitions] |
| bed-and-breakfast |
an establishment, often a small inn, that offers lodging and breakfast. |
| blend |
in linguistics, a word made by combining two other words, such as "brunch" from "breakfast" and "lunch". [1/9 definitions] |
| breakfast |
to eat breakfast. [1/2 definitions] |
| brunch |
a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch, usu. eaten in the late morning. [1/2 definitions] |
| cereal |
food processed from grain, esp. a breakfast food. [1/4 definitions] |
| continental breakfast |
a light breakfast, usu. consisting of rolls or pastries and coffee or tea, like that eaten in most European countries. |
| cornflakes |
a commercially prepared breakfast cereal made of small toasted flakes of coarse cornmeal, usu. eaten in milk. |
| dinette |
a small section of a room, esp. of a kitchen, that is used as an informal dining area; breakfast nook. [1/2 definitions] |
| granola |
a dry, often baked mixture of grains, raisins, nuts, honey, and the like, eaten as a snack or breakfast cereal. |
| prebreakfast |
combined form of breakfast. |
| scrapple |
cornmeal mush mixed with pork scraps, dried in a roll or loaf, then sliced, fried, and served as a breakfast sausage. |
| sweet roll |
a round, sweetened bread made from rolled dough, served as a single portion, and eaten generally as a breakfast food. Sweet rolls may contain cinnamon, raisins, nuts, or other flavorings and may be topped with icing. |
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