kaiser roll

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Definition of kaiser roll in English English dictionary

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

Calvin: Help! A bee! A bee! Run for your life!Hobbes! 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!.

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

Vienna roll

Related Terms

Kaiser rolls

plural form of Kaiser roll

Hyphenation

Kai·ser roll

Turkish pronunciation

kayzır rōl

Synonyms

vienna roll

Pronunciation

/ˈkīzər ˈrōl/ /ˈkaɪzɜr ˈroʊl/

Etymology

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