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pulla

pulla noun: a sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.

Noun

pulla (countable and uncountable, plural pullas)

  1. A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
    • "Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer.1986, Melissa Ladenheim, "The sauna in central New York
    • Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings.1991 September 22, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times

Examples of pulla in a sentence

  • Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]1992, Joan Potter Loveless, Three Weavers, page 29:
  • I remember the best, the years on the farm, wild roses and mushrooms that you picked near the pasture, cardamom pulla warm from the oven, […]1992, Aili Jarvenpa, In Two Cultures: The Stories of Second Generation Finnish Americans:
  • Come on, your dad's grabbed us all some pullas and cider.2013, Colleen Coble, Rock Harbor Search and Rescue: Lost and Found, page 106:
  • You can expect to be served a slice of pulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household.2018, Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.; Zoë François, Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Sweet and Decadent Baking for Every Occasion:

Forms of pulla

pluralpullas

Origin of pulla

Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.

Questions about pulla

What does pulla mean?
Pulla means a sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
How do you use pulla in a sentence?
Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]
What part of speech is pulla?
Pulla is a noun.
What is the plural of pulla?
The plural of pulla is pullas.

Words near pulla in the dictionary

  1. pull-up resistor
  2. pull-up resistors
  3. pull-upped
  4. pull-upping
  5. pull-ups
  6. pulla
  7. pullability
  8. pullable
  9. Pullabooka
  10. Pullano
  11. Pullanos

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