crescent roll
- noun
- /ˈkrɛsənt roʊl/
- US
- For breakfast, I enjoyed a warm crescent roll fresh out of the oven.
- refrigerated crescent rolls
- bought crescent rolls
- can of crescent rolls
So I also got some Crescent rolls so that I figured I could just like use those as a little pizza dough.
- So I also got some Crescent rolls so that I figured I could just like use those as a little pizza dough.
- And then I made these like pizza Crescent roll, roll up things with homemade ranch.
Examples
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Cream together sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla; spread on top of the crescent roll in the pan.
Blog text (30) -
He'll gobble up the crescent rolls sprinkled with poppy seeds, washing them down with coffee and milk.
Fiction book (1997) -
Add the other can of crescent rolls.
Blog text (30) -
Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the other half of the crescent roll dough.
Blog text (30) -
So I also got some Crescent rolls so that I figured I could just like use those as a little pizza dough.
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I mean, just imagine you're all sitting at a table together eating crescent rolls like a healthy American family.
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It looks like an unbaked crescent roll.
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He was now standing inches from the table, and Bud's mother lifted a plate of crescent rolls toward him.
Fiction book (2000) -
Topping: mix cinnamon and sugar together, sprinkle on top of crescent rolls.
Blog text (30) -
Unroll 1 can of crescent rolls into a 9x13 (ungreased) pan, pinch seams together, and push onto the sides of the pan a little.
Blog text (30)
Synonyms
A rich, buttery, flaky pastry shaped like a crescent
How Flaky
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bread roll shaped like a crescent' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'crescent' (moon-shaped) + 'roll' (a bread item). This straightforward noun–noun modification is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand it.
Etymology
Crescent roll gets its name from its curved, moon-like shape: bakers roll dough into a small curved crescent, making a flaky roll, so the name simply describes the bread's shape.