| E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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Heavy bread, ill-made bread. Shakespeare calls it distressful breadnot the bread of distress, but the panis gravis or ill-made bread eaten by the poor. | 1 |
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