Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yeast-leavened roll, shaped by folding a flat round of dough in half.
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- noun A
bread roll made byflattening the centre of a ball ofdough so that it becomes anoval shape and then folding the oval in half.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Parker House, a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.]
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After the Parker House Hotel, Boston, where they were invented.
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