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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Bread.
 
To break bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture language. Breaking of bread. The Eucharist.   1
        “They continued … in breaking of bread, and in prayers.”—Acts ii. 42; and again verse 46.
 


 Breaches,Bread. 

 
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