barracouta loafとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

barracouta loaf (複数形 barracouta loaves)

1. (New Zealand) A long, narrow loaf, often indented in the middle so that it can be broken in two.^[1]
   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude” in Bliss and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1920, p. 53,^[2]

     Alice was making water-cress sandwiches. She had a lump of butter on the table, a barracouta loaf, and the cresses tumbled in a white cloth.

   • 2000, anonymous, “Home Town” in Gordon McLauchlan (ed.), Morrieson’s Motel, Auckland: Tandem Press, p. 199,^[3]

     As Clarry remembered we were a big family—a twenty-five double barracouta loaves and fifteen pints a week family.

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