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limpa

limpa

1 9.9
A sweet rye bread from Sweden often flavored with orange peel and spices
  • noun
  • /ˈlɪmpə/
  • US
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  • She brought a loaf of limpa to share with her friends at the gathering.
  • limpa bread

Examples

  • For breakfast, I toasted some limpa and spread butter on it.

  • At the holiday feast, we served limpa alongside our traditional dishes.

  • Ivan couldn't say why he waited, why he followed her out onto Vaughn Avenue and down to the Finnish bakery, and stood watching her clutch the white sack of limpa bread to her chest, except that he'd already fallen in love.

    Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

Swedish rye bread
vslimpa
5.0

A moist rye bread that has molasses, spices, and orange flavour from Sweden

is sweeter with brown sugar or molasses and lacks citrus
Swedish rye
vslimpa
6.3

A moist rye bread flavored with orange peel and molasses

is a sweetened Scandinavian loaf that may be made without yeast

Surface Forms

limpa singular
limpas plural

Etymology

Limpa comes from Swedish, where the word originally meant 'loaf' of bread. So today limpa is the name for that traditional sweet rye 'loaf', which explains why the word refers to a specific kind of bread.