Turkish bread

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Noun

Turkish bread (usually uncountable, plural Turkish breads)

1. (Australia) A broad, round and flat bread made from wheat, sometimes considered a type of pita; pide.
   • 2008, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Gabi Mocatta, Tasmania, 5th edition, Lonely Planet, page 43:

     They devour sandwiches for lunch, with most sandwich fillings in cafés now coming on grilled, fancy-pants Italian bread such as focaccia, on bagels, or on Turkish bread (also known as pide).

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Turkish,‎ bread.
   • 2008, Joseph J. Conte, Time to Say Goodbye‎^[1], page 151:

     The Turkish breads are cornbread, Pide (a broad, round, and flat bread made of wheat), Lavash, Tandır bread (baked on the inner walls of a round oven called tandır), Bazlama, and Simit (also known as “gevrek”), another type of ring-shaped bread covered with sesame seeds.

Synonyms

• (broad, round and flat bread made from wheat): pide

Translations

bread made from wheat, pide

• Turkish: pide (tr)

See also

• Turkish pizza