panivorous
\ pa-NIV-er-uhs \, adjective;
1.subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
Quotes:
But the people who persevered in their panivorous propensities, accused the emperor of selling our corn to the English.
-- Joseph Fouché, translated from the French, "The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché," 1825
…a measure of thrice-winnowed corn, whereof every grain has its separate existence, secured in a casket of club-exclusiveness, like the Crown jewels behind their iron-grating in the Tower, or Thompsonianly speaking, like the daily bread behind the barred windows of a boulanger in the panivorous kingdom of France.
-- Catherine Gore, "Sketches of English Character," 1846
Origin:
Panivorous is formed from Latin term pānis , "bread," and -vorous , an adjectival combining form meaning "eating, gaining sustenance from." It entered English in the 1820s.
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