Definition of "day-old" [day-old]

• Not fresh today (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Her garden grew bushels of plump green beans, which she added to lamb stew; wine-dark tomatoes, to be salted and tossed with oregano, olive oil, crumbled feta, and onions sliced paper thin you sopped up the brine with day-old bread; corn and potatoes and zucchini and dill."
• "But my favorite was fattet hummus, one of the many exquisite Arabic dishes that revolve around day-old bread."
• "The necessity of using up day-old flatbread has created a universe of foods—including traditional Arabic dishes like fatteh see Fattet Hummus, page 338, fattoush, and the bread soups of the Arabian peninsula—that transforms leftovers into something magnificent."