Kaiser roll

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee in the world! It was the size of a Kaiser roll! It must've weighed 70 pounds!"

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Kaiser roll. alt-of

    "The Automat, whose gleaming chrome-and-glass machines brought high-tech eating to a low-tech era, has gulped down its last coin and served up its last helping of macaroni, baked beans and kaiser rolls."

  3. 3
    rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center wordnet

Etymology

Calque of German Kaisersemmel, from Kaiser (“emperor”) + Semmel (“roll”), so named in honour of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

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