black bread

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   bread made of coarse rye flour

   Synonymspumpernickel

   Broaderrye bread

Questions about black bread

What does black bread mean?

black bread means "bread made of coarse rye flour".

What is another word for black bread?

Close synonyms include pumpernickel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black bread a common word?

black bread is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.