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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wastel \Was"tel\, noun [OF. wastel, gastel, F. g[^a]teau, 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.]
Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. --Chaucer.
The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. --Sir W. Scott.
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