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an•a•dam′a bread′
(an′ə dam′ə),USA pronunciation
- Fooda yeast-raised bread having corn meal and molasses among its ingredients: a traditional food of colonial America.
- 1910–15; origin, originally obscure; the various anecdotes ascribing it to a permutation of "Anna damn her'' or "Anna's damn bread'' are purely folk etymologies