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n. (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Word Usage
"Though the East End is now mostly populated by later-arriving immigrants, a few bakers of the British "beigel" -- two of them on Brick Lane -- are lingering "vestiges of the area's Jewish past.""