bialy
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- noun
- /ˈbɪɑːli/
- US
- For lunch, I spread cream cheese on my toasted bialy before adding smoked salmon.
Examples
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At the New York deli, I enjoyed a warm bialy topped with onions and poppy seeds for breakfast.
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Oddly, their bialys are provisioned with onions the way their bagels should be.
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I got you a bialy.
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For me, there is only one place in Chicago to get good bagels: New York Bagel and Bialy.
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I remember I used to walk to work, and, uh, I had a warm bialy in my hand, and a hot cup of coffee from Dean & Deluca, the crisp feeling of The Wall Street Journal, the smell of leather from my briefcase.
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Back in the old country (Canarsie, Brooklyn), there were two bagel shops across from my junior high - one had better bagels, the other better bialys, and they had pletzels on weekends.
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My grandmother used to bake bialys on Sunday mornings, filling the kitchen with their delicious aroma.
Synonyms
A round flat bread roll with a thick crust and chopped onions in the center
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Etymology
Bialy comes from the Polish city Białystok and entered English through Yiddish, the language of many Jewish bakers. That's why a bialy is a round, onion-topped roll, like a bagel's cousin, but baked rather than boiled.