1) British bread 2) Yeast bread 
Manchet, manchette or michette (French), is a wheaten yeast bread of very good quality, or a small flat circular loaf of same. It was a bread that was small enough to be held in the hand or glove (see also manchette). ==History== One of the first recipes printed in English for Manchet Breads comes from 1588 and the recipe book The Good Huswifes Ha...
• (n.) Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.
Man'chet noun Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [ Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.