Drinking a Toast.
The word “toast,” used in the diinking of healths, is derived from the piece of toasted bread or biscuit that was at one time put into the tankard, and which still floats in the loving caps of the Universities and the Inns of Court. By a natural transference of meaning, the word came to be .used for the drink, itself. To toast a person, then, was to drink a toast to his good health. From this, again, it was an easy transition to another meaning—namely, the person toasted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18189, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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