Wastel \Was"tel\, n. [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.]
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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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