rossogolla

English

Etymology

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Noun

rossogolla (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of rasgulla.
    • 1980, New Delhi (volume 3, part 1, page 35)
      [] the famous sweetmeat makers of the city who confected such delicacies as the rossogolla, the pantua and the Lady Canning []
    • 2011, Michael Krondl, Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert, page 71:
      This is rossogolla's less famous and less controversial cousin. As with rossogolla, the Das family of the famous K. C. Das confectionary empire claims rossomalai as a family invention, []
    • 2013, Susil C. Acharyya, A Man of Two Countries, page 368:
      Soon, all of them sat at the dining table in the kitchen and ate simple items like lentils, veggies, fish curry, basmati rice, and rossogolla at the end as dessert.
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