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french cruller

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crul⋅ler

[kruhl-er]
–noun
1. a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
2. Also called French cruller. a rich, light, raised doughnut, often with a ridged surface and sometimes topped with white icing.
Also, kruller.


Origin:
1795–1805, Americanism; < D krul curl + -er 1
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Word Origin & History

cruller 
1818, Amer.Eng., apparently from Du. cruller, from crullen "to curl."
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