Meaning & use
baken
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An archaic or dialectal past participle of 'bake,' meaning cooked by dry heat, as in an oven.
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The old recipe calls for bread 'baken in a hot oven till golden,' in the cookbook's original nineteenth-century wording.
Village records described loaves 'baken fresh each morning' for the market.
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This older form has been almost entirely replaced by 'baked' in modern English and now survives chiefly in dialect, old texts, and deliberately archaic writing.
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