Would your master have me dip my fingers in the dish and wipe them on bread-manchets as the Queen does?
It is all one whether you wipe your fingers on bread-manchets or on napkins.
He placed the chain the prince had given him round his neck, and with an ample ruff and manchets of Flemish lace, and his rapier by his side, he took his place in the boat, and was rowed to Greenwich.
And, after, with the selfe same wine are littlemanchets made, Agaynst the boystrous winter stormes, and sundrie such like trade.
Manchets are used in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge to this day.
The manchets and cheese, and fine ale, of Magdalen College are well known.
Then they spread a napkin of white linen upon the table and anon they set before Sir Gawaine a very bounteous feast of various meats, and of manchets of white bread and of divers wines both red and white.
Mistress Alden bent to uncover her bake kettle, or Dutch oven, to see if the manchets of fine flour her husband liked so heartily were well browned.
Come now, Captain, the manchets are done, and the fish is broiled, and the porridge made.
Then still other attendants brought them good strong wine and manchets of bread and they sat together at table and ate very cheerfully and were greatly refreshed.
And Sir Tristram would have served him with wine and with manchets of bread with his own hand, but King Arthur would not have it so, but bade Sir Tristram to sit beside him on his right hand, and Sir Tristram did so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manchets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
