Vienna roll
- noun
- /viˈɛnə roʊl/
:
pan vienés
- They serve freshly baked Vienna rolls with butter at the café.
Examples
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Baguettes, croissants, Vienna rolls, miches all have become platforms for savory flights of flavor the like of which West Seattle has probably never experienced before.
Blog text (1) -
Pork may be brined overnight, roasted, then sliced very thin, and piled upon a traditional Vienna roll with pickled red onions that deliver an acidic note to the back of the palate.
Blog text (1) -
They make delicious Vienna rolls.
Fiction book (1992) -
For breakfast, she enjoyed a warm Vienna roll topped with jam.
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The bakery specializes in Vienna rolls, which are popular among locals.
Synonyms
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2.1
A small round bread baked to have a hard, crisp crust
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3.9
A round crusty bread roll with a crisp top often sprinkled with poppy seeds
How Crusty
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines a place name 'Vienna' with the common noun 'roll', so its meaning as a type of bread roll associated with Vienna is directly derivable from the constituents. This place+item naming pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., 'Wienerbrötchen', 'viennoiserie') and would be transparent to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Vienna roll may come from the city of Vienna, where bakers made a small yeast bread with a crisp crust called a roll. That's why Vienna roll now means 'a small, round bread roll with a hard or crisp crust'.