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folar

folar noun: a traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.

Noun

folar (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.
    • Mr. Alexandre is no stranger to the kitchen, as he’s proud to announce, having won several contests at the social club for his folar, a traditional Easter bread that in Trás-os-Montes is stuffed with cured meat.2009 April 8, David Leite, “Newark’s Portuguese Community Keeps Fires of Tradition Burning”, in New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: FoLAR

FoLAR

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Friends of the Los Angeles River.

Origin of folar

Borrowed from Portuguese folar.

Questions about folar

What does folar mean?
Folar means a traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.
What part of speech is folar?
Folar can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near folar in the dictionary

  1. folacins
  2. Folan
  3. Foland
  4. Folands
  5. Folans
  6. folar
  7. folate
  8. folates
  9. Folb
  10. folboat
  11. folboats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: folar (page history and authors); FoLAR (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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