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Wastel vs Pastel - What's the difference?

wastel | pastel |

As nouns the difference between wastel and pastel

is that wastel is (obsolete) a kind of fine white bread or cake while pastel is any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender.

wastel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
    • Roasted flesh or milk and wastel bread. — Chaucer.
    The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. — Sir Walter Scott.
    (Webster 1913)

    pastel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue and lavender
  • A drawing made with any of those colors.
  • A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
  • A crayon made from such a paste.

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