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(bis′kit) noun
1. A kind of shortened bread baked in small cakes, raised with baking powder or soda.
2. Brit. A sweetened cracker or cookie.
3. Unglazed pottery which has been fired in the oven; bisque. [<OF bescoit <bes twice (<L bis) + coit, pp. of cuire cook <L coquere]
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