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bolillo

bolillo noun: a type of white bread roll from Latin America.

Noun

bolillo (plural bolillos)

  1. A type of white bread roll from Latin America.
    • In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery...2009 August 26, John T. Edge, “In Praise of the All-American Mexican Hot Dog”, in New York Times

Forms of bolillo

pluralbolillos

Origin of bolillo

From Mexican Spanish bolillo (“bread roll”).

Questions about bolillo

What does bolillo mean?
Bolillo means a type of white bread roll from Latin America.
What part of speech is bolillo?
Bolillo is a noun.
What is the plural of bolillo?
The plural of bolillo is bolillos.

Words near bolillo in the dictionary

  1. Bolifushi
  2. boligarch
  3. boligarchs
  4. Boligee
  5. Bolihera
  6. bolillo
  7. bolillos
  8. Bolimathaidhoo
  9. Bolimathaidhua
  10. bolin
  11. Bolinao

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