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bis⋅cuit

  [bis-kit]
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–noun
1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.
2. Chiefly British.
a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
b. a cookie.
3. a pale-brown color.
4. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
–adjective
6. having the color biscuit.
Origin:
1300–50; ME bysquyte < MF biscuit (ML biscoctus), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes bis 1 + cuit, ptp. of cuire < L coquere to cook 1

Related forms:
bis⋅cuit⋅like, adjective
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