pan dulce

noun

A Mexican sweet bread or pastry.

OriginMexican Spanish pan dulce →
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Meanings

nounpan dulce (plural pan dulces or panes dulces)

plural pan dulces · plural panes dulces

  1. A Mexican sweet bread or pastry.

    They also sell a pan dulce called 'quesadilla' which is sort of like pound cake made with bakers cheese; very very good.

    2003 February 3, Chris Pando, “Los Nopalitos”, in houston.eats (Usenet)

Origin

  1. Mexican Spanishpan dulce“sweet bread”
  2. Englishpan dulce

From Mexican Spanish pan dulce (“sweet bread”).

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APA

pan dulce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan%20dulce

MLA

“pan dulce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan%20dulce. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pan dulce,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan%20dulce.

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