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Definition of Toast
Toast

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.

A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.

Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.

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Toast Quotations

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
John Steinbeck

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
Robert Mapplethorpe

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.
Suzanne Fields

Toast Translations

toast in Afrikaans is braai
toast in Danish is stege
toast in Dutch is braden, branden, roosteren
toast in Finnish is malja, paistaa
toast in Italian is brindisi, brindare
toast in Norwegian is steke
toast in Portuguese is brinde
toast in Spanish is asar, brindis

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