Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TEMSE'-BREAD, or TEM'SED-BREAD
TEMPT'RESSTEM'U-LENCE, or TEM'U-LEN-CY
TEMSE'-BREAD, or TEM'SED-BREAD, n. [Fr. tamiser, It. tamisare, tamigiare, to sift; Fr. tamis, It. tamiso, tamigio, a sieve.]
Bread made of flour better sifted than common flour. [I know not where this word is used.] Johnson.
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