stollen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stollen
1925–30; < German Stolle ( n ), literally, post, support; so called from its shape
Example Sentences
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And then you dust, dust, dust confectioners sugar generously over the stollen and let it sit, allowing the sugar to form a thick white coating that looks like an avalanche of freshly fallen snow.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
I'm not going to sugar-coat it for you — stollen is a slightly complicated bread to make, requiring a hefty ingredient list and several steps.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
It’s Bread Week, with dinner rolls in the signature challenge, the judge Johnny Iuzzini’s recipe for Christmas stollen in the technical challenge and bread sculptures in the showstopper challenge.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
There was stollen, and gingerbread, and presents, and snowflakes and 36 hours of Christmas music on the stereo.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2015
After these had stollen away one by one, as the manner is, it pleased the Prince to aske what was a clocke, it beeing aunswered almost twelve hee presently called in for supper.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
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