- 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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Mel|ba toast
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