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fairy bread

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fairy bread
noun [mass noun] Australian and New Zealand English sweet bread sprinkled with hundreds and thousands:
there'll be activities for the children, and vanilla scones and fairy bread.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: perhaps from the title of a poem of 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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