Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pastry made with fruit or cheese rolled up in layers of thin sheets of dough and then baked.

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  • noun a pastry made from multiple, thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.

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  • noun thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, from Middle High German, whirlpool.]

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German Strudel ("whirlpool, strudel").

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  • In Hebrew at sign is colloquially known as shtrudel (שטרודל). The normative term, invented by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, is krukhit (כרוכית), which is a Hebrew word for strudel.

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    December 13, 2007

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    December 30, 2009