Meanings
plural bolillos
- A type of white bread roll from Latin America.
1 more example
In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns.
2009 August 26, John T. Edge, “In Praise of the All-American Mexican Hot Dog”, in New York Times
Origin
- Mexican Spanishbolillo“bread roll”
- Englishbolillo
From Mexican Spanish bolillo (“bread roll”).
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