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strudel

[strood-l; German shtrood-l]
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noun
  1. a pastry, usually consisting of a fruit, cheese, or other mixture, rolled in a paper-thin sheet of dough and baked.
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Origin of strudel

1925–30; < German: literally, eddy, whirlpool
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British Dictionary definitions for strudel

strudel

noun
  1. a thin sheet of filled dough rolled up and bakedapple strudel
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Word Origin

German, from Middle High German strodel eddy, whirlpool, so called from the way the pastry is rolled
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Word Origin and History for strudel

n.

kind of Austrian pastry, 1893, from German Strudel, literally "eddy, whirlpool," from Old High German stredan "to bubble, boil, whirl, eddy," from PIE root *ser- (2) "to flow" (see serum).

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