[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wastel \was"tel\, n. of. wastel, gastel, f. g^ateau, ll.
   wastellus, fr. mhg. wastel a kind of bread; cf. ohg.  as.
   wist food.
   a kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also
   wastel bread, and wastel cake. obs.
   1913 webster

         roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.  --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         the simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used
         at the tables of the highest nobility.   --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster
see also:
wastel bread wastel cake 

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