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bialy

American  
[bee-ah-lee, byah-] / biˈɑ li, ˈbjɑ- /

noun

  • bialys
    plural
  1. a round, flat, leavened, soft roll made of white flour, having a crusty bottom and a depression at the center that is typically filled with an onion and poppy seed mixture.


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Origin of bialy

First recorded in 1960–65; after Białystok

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Harvey Averne begins most days with a bialy and whitefish salad.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2023

It could be that Bigo was trying to call Nancy a bialy, a holeless bagel, and simply lost his train of biadt.

From Washington Post Apr. 27, 2021

“Just to watch me order a bialy and chocolate milk in my English accent was enough to make any observer want to strangle me.”

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2016

Any self-respecting New Yorker - I daresay, any self-respecting foodie - knows the difference among baba ganoush, kimchi and a bialy.

From Washington Times Sep. 24, 2014

While the 20-year-old California golfer, who now goes by the surname Foreman, ordered a bialy with egg, her gregarious Italian father forged a rapport with the diner's owner and some patrons.

From Golf Digest Sep. 7, 2011

One of Seattle’s best pop-ups, Loxsmith Bagels finds a permanent home next to the Beacon Hill light-rail station, with baker Matthew Segal showcasing about a dozen different bagels and bialys.

From Seattle Times Apr. 22, 2023

But among the diaspora of bakers, she found the best bialys on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

From Seattle Times Apr. 7, 2023

The skinny 28-year-old, with a permanent smile and waist-length dreadlocks, was slinging still-warm bialys smeared with house-made chive cream cheese and lox.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2012

Developed from the slightly soft, round poppy-seeded and onion-topped pletzel, bialys are distinguished by a puffy rim and a flat, wide, crisp center well.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2012

In your own part of the country, in upstate New York, you can go into a Wegmans and there's Ligurian olive oil and bialys and everything.

From Time Mar. 2, 2010

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