hard roll
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2.1
- noun
- /hɑrd roʊl/
:
panecillo
- The bakery offers freshly baked hard rolls that are perfect for sandwiches.
Examples
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The town has history, a university, a little industry, and a self-service restaurant in which you can get a steak with an egg on it, potatoes, a salad, a good hard roll, a bottle of beer, some pudding, and a cup of coffee for about sixty-five cents, if you are thinking in dollars.
Fiction book (1991) -
One morning, in a large Paris hotel, the ceremony of breakfast was completed by the presence of two torpedo-shaped hard rolls.
Fiction book (1991) -
They serve it on a hard roll.
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Two beers and a sloppy joe on a hard roll.
Fiction book (1992) -
I shall buy hard rolls, cheese, oranges, and some cake; perhaps he'll walk with me in the snow.
Fiction book (1990) -
" Karen ordered her usual: fresh juice, fruit compote, coffee, hard roll."
Fiction book (1992) -
Let me get a bacon, egg and cheese on a hard roll... with side order of fries, cheese and gravy... and a bowl of gravy on the side.
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I chewed hard rolls and baked ham contentedly, washing them down with the jug of milk provided.
Fiction book (1992) -
We load our plates with ham, corn, potato salad, and hard rolls at the buffet and take our plates and iced tea out by the pool.
Fiction book (1992) -
When the war ends, he will set out five loaves of bread in a row, a basket of hard rolls, and a basket of crescent rolls, and he will smear them all with butter and eat every one of them.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.8
Something that is wrapped or bent into a long, round shape
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3.9
A round crusty bread roll with a crisp top often sprinkled with poppy seeds
A small round bread roll made with yeast and a crisp crust
Antonyms
How Crusty
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: 'hard' (firm, crusty) modifies 'roll' (a bread roll), so the meaning 'a roll with a hard outer crust' is directly derivable from the parts. This pattern is common across languages and the bakery context in the example disambiguates 'roll' as bread, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Hard roll may come from a simple baking picture: bakers roll dough into small shapes and bake them until the outside becomes hard and crisp, and the word roll means a small round bread. That's why hard roll means 'a small, crusty bread roll' today.