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noun
A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Kaiser roll.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bun, roll
History
Calque of German Kaisersemmel, from Kaiser (“emperor”) + Semmel (“roll”), so named in honour of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Across languages
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