Definition of pretzel
: a brittle or chewy glazed usually salted slender bread often shaped like a loose knot
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But there's new stuff for kids too, including the hot pretzels and root beer floats at the Bear Garden.
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The bag of pretzels in your lunchbox, the bowl of chips at the barbeque, the sleeve of bright orange crackers at the office.
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Earlier this year, Campbell Soup, which had already acquired the organic products maker Pacific Foods, closed on its $4.9 billion acquisition of Synder’s-Lance, the maker of Snyder’s of Hanover pretzels and Cape Cod potato chips.
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Try the chicken pot pie with mushroom and a Madeira wine sauce ($20) or split a few small plates like the fried calamari with a Thai chili aioli ($13) and the steak burger sliders on pretzel buns ($11).
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It was inscribed on the back of an oblong strip of tin originally intended to advertise Coca-Cola and leaned, against the pretzel bowl, to warn the barflies who buzzed all day long between the curb and the bar.
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The two will serve a limited menu that complements European beers, such as sausage and cheese plates and pretzels.
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The fest features more than 30 Chicago breweries, food trucks, activities (including making a pretzel necklace to nosh on while drinking and a competition for best necklace) and of course beer pong.
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Jawas are walking around stealing pretzels off the table.
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Origin and Etymology of pretzel
German Brezel, ultimately from Latin brachiatus having branches like arms, from brachium arm — more at brace
PRETZEL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pretzel for English Language Learners
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: a long, thin piece of bread that is usually salted and shaped like a knot or stick
PRETZEL Defined for Kids
Definition of pretzel for Students
: a brown cracker that is salted and is often shaped like a loose knot
History for pretzel
Pretzels have been known in the United States since as early as the 1830s, when the word pretzel (borrowed from German Brezel) first turns up in writing. In Germany, though, both the hard, knot-shaped bread and the word for it are many centuries older, going back to medieval German brezitela. The word is ultimately a borrowing from Latin brachiatus, “having branches like arms.” Twisted pastries such as pretzels must have been so called because they suggested a pair of folded arms.
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