Meanings
nounrollmop (plural rollmops)
plural rollmops · alternative rollmops
- A fillet of herring, rolled and flavoured with sliced onion and spices then pickled in brine.
At lunch the excellent cold borscht could lead up to the herring sampler featuring rollmops, Swedish matjes and pickled herring, which has immediately joined the small list of dishes whose flavor helps define New York.
2014 July 29, Pete Wells, “Standing 100 Years? So You Should Sit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
Back-formation from the plural rollmops, from the German singular Rollmops.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech zavináč
- zavináčfillet of herring
Dutch rolmops
- rolmopsfillet of herring
French rollmops
- rollmopsfillet of herring
German Rollmops
- Rollmopsfillet of herring
Polish rolmops
- rolmopsfillet of herring
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