shew-bread

Noun

 * 1) Twelve loaves of bread placed on the altar in Jewish Temples and renewed periodically. See showbread.
 * 2) * 1658: a long sided quadrate [...] was the figure of the Ark of the Covenant, the table of the Shew-bread, and the stone wherein the names of the twelve Tribes were engraved — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 177)