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Rusk   /rəsk/   Listen
Rusk

noun
1.
Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp.  Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback.






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"Rusk" Quotes from Famous Books



... sent to the two kings, in honour of a great feast they were to give next day, together with a comedy or play. By his advice, and after consulting with the other gentlemen of the factory, I directed two bottles of Spanish wine, two roasted hens, a roasted pig, a small quantity of rusk, and three boxes of confections and preserves to be sent, as a contribution towards their feast. Before night the young king sent one of his men to me, requesting me to furnish him with some English apparel, for the better setting out their comedy, and particularly ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... Katalan's rock, on the edge of the sea, stands the Colonial Castle. It is a wooden structure, looking more like a barrack than a castle. At the foot of the rock are the barracks and Custom House. A thin sprinkling of marines, a few foreign-looking citizens—the full-fledged Rusk of the unmistakable type is hard to find nowadays,—and troops of Indians give a semblance of life to this quarter. At the head of the street stands the Russian Orthodox Church; and this edifice, with its quaint tower and spire, is really the lion of the place. St. Michael's was ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard



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