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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. A Scandinavian pastry, a Nordic variety of pretzel.
Wikipedia
Kringle (, ) is a Scandinavian pastry, a Nordic variety of pretzel. Pretzels were introduced by Roman-Catholic monks in the 13th century in Denmark, and from here it spread and developed further into several kinds of sweet, salty or filled pastries, all in the shape of kringle.
In Danish and Norwegian, the word is kringle, plural kringler; , plural kringlid; , plural kringlor; plural kringlur, plural kringlur; ; and . The word originates from the Old Norse kringla, meaning ring or circle.
In the Netherlands, a particular type of sweet kringle is well known under the Dutch name krakeling.
The shape of the kringle has given name to a similarly entangled feature found in some proteins, the so-called Kringle domain.
Kringle is an American children's novel by author Tony Abbott. The story chronicles the origins of Kris Kringle, also known as Santa Claus. The book was released in 2005.
Usage examples of "kringle".
Late that afternoon the travelers came upon a shack in the foothills, where an old rancher, a hermit, lived when not tending his little flock of sheep, most of which, Kris Kringle said, the old man had stolen from droves that came up over the trail going north.