Definition of Stollen

1. Noun. A traditional German cake eaten at Christmas time, made with nuts, raisins and other dried fruits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stollen

1. a sweet bread [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stollen

stole fees
stoled
stolen
stolen base
stolen bases
stolen property
stoles
stolest
stolid
stolider
stolidest
stolidities
stolidity
stolidly
stolidness
stollen (current term)
stollens
stoln
stolon
stolonate
stolonic
stoloniferous
stolons
stolovaya
stolovayas
stolport
stolports
stolzite
stoma
stomach

Literary usage of Stollen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"his commendatory preface, expresses the same feeling: " The Jesuits have won much of their reputation, and stollen many hearts with their diligence in this ..."

2. Baker's Bread by Paul Richards (1918)
"Zwieback and stollen. The standard dough mixtures as well as the rusk mixtures, will make a variety of zwieback, and give bakers a choice in quality as well ..."

3. Lehrbuch Der Bergbaukunde by Gustav Köhler (1887)
"Auf der ändern Seite werden den stollen von Kohlengruben in der Regel weit größere Quantitäten nicht allein von Wasser, sondern auch von ..."

4. Underground Life: Or, Mines and Miners by Louis Simonin, Henry William Bristow (1869)
"... Botallack Mine in Cornwall; Wherry Mine near Penzance.—Mines of the Upper Harz, in Hanover.—Great galleries, Georg-stollen and Ernst-August. ..."

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