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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 toast rack
 麵包架

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Toast, n.
 1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
 My sober evening let the tankard bless,
 With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught.   --T. Warton.
 2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
    It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia.   --Fielding.
 3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as “The land we live in,”  “The day we celebrate,” etc.
 Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.