FromGermanKipfel, diminutive ofKipf(“wagon post”), fromOld High Germankipfa,chipf, fromLatincippus(“post”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈkɪp.fəl/

kipfel (pluralkipfels)

1. A type of crescent-shapedbiscuit orbread roll.

   Hypernyms:crescent,crescent roll,croissant,viennoiserie

   • 1880, C. J. Peterson,Peterson's Magazine, volumes77–78,page314:

     Bake thekipfel on wafers, in a very moderate oven.

   • 2003, Brigitte Hamann, edited by Hans Mommsen,The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918–1945, Hitler and Vienna: The Truth about his Formative Years,page35:

     The son of a former houseowner in the Stumpergasse told me that the young Hitler would go every morning to a Jewish distiller (Branntweiner) near his flat to have a small breakfast there consisting always of ‘a tea and akipfel’.

   • 2006, Edna Staebler,Food That Really Schmecks,page167:

     From this fine, sweet, almost cake-like yeast dough, rolled out fairly thin, can be made a variety of delicious desserts, coffee cakes, butter horns, turnovers, crescent rolls, schnecken,kipfel, or nut rolls.

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