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bulochka

bulochka noun: a soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.

bulochka: a soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and...
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Noun

bulochka (countable and uncountable, plural bulochki or bulochky)

  1. A soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.
    • Kasha, holoubtsi, kissel, bulochki! It’s not a college yell but a part of the menu the University Club will serve Tuesday evening, April 11, when Ukrainian night is observed there.1933 April 3, Cornelia Curtiss, “Entertaining by Groups and Individuals Leads Society’s Interests: Strange and Wonderful Food on Ukrainian Night Menu at the University Club”, in Cleveland Plain...
    • There she was confronted with dozens of kinds of loaves and rolls from the soft, mealy black bread that is Russia’s traditional staff of life to beautiful bulochki or rolls made with cake flour and cinnamon and raisens^([sic]) and nuts.1962 February 6, Harrison E[vans] Salisbury, “Shopping An Adventure For Moscow Housewife”, in Bangor Daily News, volume 73, number 200, Bangor, Me., page 20

Examples of bulochka in a sentence

  • The last word in piroshki and bulochka with macom.1971 June 7, “Meanwhile, can you survive in San Francisco?”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 5, number...
  • NATASHA, You Will Always Be My Little Bulochka V.1991 October 19, “Write from the Heart”, in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh., page 12-D, column 7:
  • Katya would go into the bread shop. […] There were different shapes and varieties. […] Every kind of bread! […] And the many kinds of bulochki. […] And she always bought Vera a sweet bulochka as well.1999, Natasha Templeton, “[Leningrad 1941] Everyone Has a Talent”, in Winter in the Summer Garden, Auckland: Vintage, Random House New...
  • Plain or stuffed bulochki can be served either as snack or appetizer. […] Using the soft pastry brush, totally brush each risen bulochka (mini roll) with it.2010, Nadejda Reilly, Ukrainian Cuisine with an American Touch and Ingredients, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 33 and 71:

Forms of bulochka

pluralbulochki
pluralbulochky

Origin of bulochka

Borrowed from Russian бу́лочка (búločka) and Ukrainian бу́лочка (búločka).

Questions about bulochka

What does bulochka mean?
Bulochka means a soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.
How do you use bulochka in a sentence?
The last word in piroshki and bulochka with macom.
What part of speech is bulochka?
Bulochka is a noun.
What is the plural of bulochka?
The plural of bulochka is bulochki.

Words near bulochka in the dictionary

  1. Bulmers
  2. Buln Buln
  3. Buln Buln East
  4. Bulnes
  5. Bulneses
  6. bulochka
  7. bulochki
  8. bulochky
  9. Bulod
  10. buloke
  11. bulokes

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