Meanings
- A Scandinavian variety of cinnamon roll.
We buy hot chocolate and kanelboller — Norwegian cinnamon buns — and sit by the water, marvelling at the flat, sparkling sea
2018 December 22, Annabelle Thorpe, “My Winter Voyage to the Arctic Circle”, in The Times2 more examples
All participants share a common table of traditional foods — oatmeal in the morning, smørbrød and saft for lunch, lapskaus, fiskegratang, fried fish or Bergen’s fiskesuppe for middag and of course kveldsmat or kosekos of rundstykker, vaffler, svele, kanelboller (shillingsboller) in the evening.
2017 February 22, Angie Cina, “Norwegian sailor to visit Westby Sons of Norway meeting”, in The Westby timesAs the Historical Museum was still closed, making it impossible for him to do an on-site investigation, he spent an hour or so having a second breakfast of coffee and kanelboller before heading over to the Oslo City Hall.
2018, Kelly Maher, A Scandal in Scandinavia
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