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zwie⋅back

  [zwahy-bak, -bahk, zwee-, swahy-, swee-; Ger. tsvee-bahk]
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–noun
a special egg bread made into rusks.
Origin:
1890–95, Americanism; < G: twice-baked, equiv. to zwie twice + backen to bake. See twi-, bake; cf. biscuit
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zwie·back   (swē'bāk', -bäk', swī'-, zwē'-, zwī'-)   
n.  A usually sweetened bread baked first as a loaf and later cut into slices and toasted.

[German : zwie-, twice (from Middle High German zwi-, from Old High German; see dwo- in Indo-European roots) + backen, to bake (from Middle High German, from Old High German bahhan, backan).]
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Zwieback

Zwie"back`\, n. [G., fr. zwie- two, twice (see Twice) + backen to bake.] A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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zwieback 
1894, from Ger. Zweiback "biscuit," lit. "twice-baked," from zwei "two, twice" + backen "to bake;" loan-transl. of It. biscotto (see biscuit).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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