Well attestedFrom the people of the place
danish
noun · first attested 20th century
The pastry is named for the wrong country.
A sweet laminated pastry.
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- From the people of the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Denmark
- In English
danish
Danish bakers learned the method from Austrian workers, and Danish itself calls it Viennese bread. English named it for the intermediary.
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1 more from the same place
Denmark
All 6 entries 4 more words from Denmark
Copenhagen plankA groin exercise carries a Danish city's name and nobody agrees why.Copenhagencream HavartiThe cheese is named after a farm outside Copenhagen where a woman reverse-engineered European cheesemaking.HolteHavartiThe cheese is named for a farm, seventy years after the woman who developed it worked there.HoltescandiumMendeleev predicted it as eka-boron and a Swede found it, so it was named for the whole peninsula.Scandinavia