Rogalik

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crescent-shaped pastry that is popular in Poland and various other Eastern European countries.

    "Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house."

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"Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house."

Etymology

From Polish rogalik and Russian рога́лик (rogálik).

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