breaded

1. 1
   adjective

   Covered with a coating of bread or breadcrumbs, typically applied before frying.

   He served a plate of breaded cutlets with lemon on the side.

   The breaded fillets sizzled the moment they hit the hot oil.

   Similarcoated

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bread.

   He breaded the veal cutlets and set them aside.

   The shrimp were breaded and dropped into hot oil.

   Note

   A regular past form: bread simply adds -ed, and one spelling serves both the simple past (she breaded the chicken) and the participle after have or be (the chicken has been breaded). The verb has a second, non-culinary meaning, to form into meshes or net, which takes the same form. When the participle stands before a noun, it becomes the crumb-coated adjective.

3. 3
   adjectiveobsolete

   Plaited or interwoven into braids.

   Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

   Note

   A word for hair worn in plaits, found in Elizabethan verse: in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), a lady ties up her golden locks "in breaded tramels" so that no loose hair strays about her ears. It is now obsolete, so modern writing calls for braided. In an old text, read it as plaited hair, not as the crumb-coated kitchen sense. The two words only look alike.

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