laddu

plural laddus · alternative laddoo · alternative ladoo · alternative luddoo · alternative ludoo

1. A ball-shaped sweet made with flour and sugar, popular in the Indian subcontinent.

   His foster-mother Yashoda caught him stealing laddus.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 107

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   Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.

   2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times