kaiser roll
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Kaiser roll.
Example Sentences
- "Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee in the world! It was the size of a Kaiser roll! It must've weighed 70 pounds!"
- "The Automat, whose gleaming chrome-and-glass machines brought high-tech eating to a low-tech era, has gulped down its last coin and served up its last helping of macaroni, baked beans and kaiser rolls."
- "The bread is shaped like a kaiser roll but crowned with a mantle of seeds and coarse salt so abundant that it crunches audibly when bitten."
- "It's a hard roll, more specifically a crusty kaiser roll, sprinkled with caraway and coarse salt instead of the more familiar poppy seed topping."
- "So I go into the girls' bathroom, eat the kaiser roll as quickly as I can, and throw the paper bag in the trash for tampons."