Definition of "pumpernickel" []

• A dark, sourish bread made from whole, coarsely ground rye. (noun)

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• "Kalamata olives are "freeze dried" for 18 hours, then crumbled; pumpernickel is roasted in the oven and then blended down; and hazelnuts are mixed with flour, beer and butter to form a paste, oven-dried for 24 hours, and then blitzed into fine powder."
• "More recently, my son now 6 has found the word "pumpernickel" to be very interesting."
• "We could not even procure white bread, simply the black 'pumpernickel' bread so much prized in Germany."