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   Wastel (?), n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. gâteau, 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.]
   
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   Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer.
   
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   The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
   
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