Mel|ba toast

Mel|ba toast
Mel|ba toast «MEHL buh»,
a kind of very crisp, evenly browned toast made from extremely thin slices of slightly stale white bread.
[perhaps < Dame Nellie Melba, 1861-1931, an Australian soprano]

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