spring roll
(in Asian cuisine) a cylindrical casing of rice paper, or sometimes wheat-and-egg dough, filled with a shredded mixture of vegetables and often meat or seafood, served fresh or deep-fried.: Compare summer roll.
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How to use spring roll in a sentence
She too had ordered Thai food — a spring roll, Brussels sprouts and a noodle dish — but it didn’t arrive in time for the date.
Eat fried spring rolls, sticky rice cakes, pickled leeks, dried coconut and persimmons, all kinds of treats.
British Dictionary definitions for spring roll
a Chinese dish consisting of a savoury mixture of vegetables and meat rolled up in a thin pancake and fried
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