cozonac

plural cozonaci · alternative kozunak

1. countableuncountableA kind of stollen or sweet bread, often containing raisins, popular in southeastern Europe.

   On New Year's Day Mama bakes a cozonac. She hasn't baked one since my birthday in April, ages ago. I follow her into the kitchen to watch her knead and braid the dough.

   2010, Haya Leah Molnar, Under a Red Sky, →ISBN, page 251

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   It is an ancient custom for householders to give many "cozonacs"—a national, simple kind of cake that is always obtainable in every household—to both friends and employees on Easter morn, […]

   1923, The Graphic, volume 107, page 440

   […] enjoyed the baking of numerous "cozonacs" and cracking the red, gaily patterned eggs against each other, although we did not accompany this with the prescribed "Christ has Risen."

   1967, Annie Samuelli, The Wall Between, page 203

   I dreamt of my dead husband, who asked me for a cozonac, adding, 'It's important that you prepare it yourself.' I had this dream three nights in a row until I finally baked it.

   2010, someone quoted in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming, page 88