A Kaiser roll featuring its characteristic star.Calque ofGermanKaisersemmel, fromKaiser(“emperor”) +Semmel(“roll”), so named in honour ofEmperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Kaiserroll (pluralKaiser rolls)
- A typicallycrusty round breadroll supposedlyinvented inVienna, made fromflour,barm,malt,water, andsalt, and whose characteristicfeature is a five-spokedpropeller- orpinwheel-like star on itsobverse.
1989 June 26, Bill Watterson,Calvin & Hobbes (comic):Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee in the world! It was the size of aKaiser roll! It must've weighed 70 pounds!
star-emblazoned round bread roll
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