breadcrumb [bred-kruhm] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a crumb of bread, either dried or soft. Usually breadcrumbs. Also called breadcrumb trail. Digital Technology. a sequence of text links on the current page of a website or web-based application, usually at the top, showing the page’s location within a hierarchy of content or browsing history and providing a convenient navigational tool: Online shoppers can use breadcrumbs to see other products in the same category.
Origin of breadcrumb First recorded in 1760–70;+ Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for breadcrumb Historical Examples of breadcrumb
At that, I hold no brief for the pheasant—except when served with breadcrumb dressing and currant jelly he is no friend of mine.
Irvin S. Cobb
When quite cool and firm, divide in six parts, giving each the shape of a small cutlet; egg and breadcrumb twice.
Be careful to save the vegetable that you scoop out and mix it with the curry and breadcrumb mixture.
Mary Kennedy Core
When syrup has reached the stage that it forms a hard ball in water, pour over the breadcrumb mixture.
Mary Kennedy Core
When cold, roll it into large boudins the shape of sausages, egg and breadcrumb, and fry.
Harriet A. de Salis
British Dictionary definitions for breadcrumb breadcrumb noun the soft inner part of bread (plural) bread crumbled into small fragments, as for use in cooking verb (tr) to coat (food) with breadcrumbsegg and breadcrumb the escalopes Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012