where or how did the term 'bread-winner' come from?

Question

(i live in a rice-eaters community, so it's hard to explain it literally. )

Answer 1

Yeah that one you can tell as working for his home's needs

Answer 2

The term breadwinner was coined between 1810 and 1820. The rise in importance of men's success at work was tied to the decline of the traditions of deference that had accompanied the Great Chain, whereby each member of the hierarchy was expected to give "due deference" to those above him, and expected to receive due deference from those below. Even into the nineteenth century, the Great Chain lived on unexamined in many areas of life and, in many contexts, elites still enjoyed the deference of their social inferiors. Yet in the course of the nineteenth century, traditional norms of deference gave way to the "self-made man," a term that entered the language in the 1840s. For the first time in history, a man's social position (in theory, anyway) was determined by his own success.

Answer 3

well i'm sure a country that eats bread instead of rice made it up, then. and it was probably made up at a time when bread was all they could buy with the money they were earning.