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ensaimada

ensaimada noun: a type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.

ensaimada: a type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced...
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Noun

ensaimada (countable and uncountable, plural ensaimadas or ensaimades)

  1. A type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.
    • Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish.1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5
    • After I’d polished off two ensaimades, a plain one and a cream one, and another pastry for dessert, I said: "Aunt Antònia, please don't buy me any more of this stuff..."1998, Maria-Antònia Oliver, translated by Kathleen McNerney, chapter 7, in Blue Roses for a Dead…Lady? A Critical Edition and Translation from Catalan of El Sol que fa l’ànec by Maria-Antònia Oliver...
    Synonyms:
    ensaymada

ensaimada meaning in Tagalog

ensaimada in Tagalog

Mallorcan pastry
ensaymada

Synonyms of ensaimada

Forms of ensaimada

pluralensaimadas
pluralensaimades
alternative formensaïmada

Origin of ensaimada

Borrowed from Catalan ensaïmada. Doublet of ensaymada.

Questions about ensaimada

What does ensaimada mean?
Ensaimada means a type of pastry originating from Mallorca made from flour, water, sugar, eggs, dough and reduced pork lard named saïm.
What is ensaimada in Tagalog?
Ensaimada in Tagalog is ensaymada. See Ensaimada meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is ensaimada?
Ensaimada is a noun.
What is the plural of ensaimada?
The plural of ensaimada is ensaimadas.

Words near ensaimada in the dictionary

  1. ensaculin
  2. ensafe
  3. ensafed
  4. ensafes
  5. ensaffroned
  6. ensaimada
  7. ensaimadas
  8. ensaimades
  9. ensalada
  10. ensalada chilena
  11. ensample

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