foular

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Definitions

  • n. A Purim pastry consisting of a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sweet dough representing Haman in a jail cell.

Example Sentences

  • "At first, I was disappointed to find that upon removing my foulares from the oven, the once-blue hard-boiled eggs now looked pocked and stained. But the more I looked at the Rorschach-test design on the shells, the more beauty I found in it." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Ladino

Etymology

  • folar

      • Who Uses This

      • Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • None

      Alternative Spellings

      foulars, folares, folars, foulares, folar

Notes

  • Not to be confused with the traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter which was perhaps influenced by Jewish folares.


    plural: 'foulares'

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